Household spending on culture in 2020 (last available data) amounted to almost CZK 52.1 billion and decreased by 9.3% compared to 2019. Their weight in the total financial resources for culture fell by one percentage point year-on-year to 19.9%.
Household expenditure was mainly directed towards media and print (e.g. television, radio, cinema, books and press, video games), amounting to CZK 38.4 billion, which represents a 74% share of total household expenditure on culture (it was 3.3 percentage points lower in 2019). Much less was spent by households on cultural heritage, live arts (performing and visual arts) and arts education (together CZK 11.4 billion, down CZK 3.6 billion year-on-year). Household expenditure on culture mostly takes the form of admission fees, purchases of souvenirs, handicrafts, concession fees, other service charges (e.g. fees for watching pay-per-view programmes via the internet), tuition fees for arts education or purchases of cultural goods (books, magazines, paintings, antiques, etc.).
The share of households’ spending on culture in their total consumption expenditure fell to 2.05% in 2020 (from 2.15% in the previous year).
Table 7: Household cultural expenditure by expenditure purpose, 2018 and 2020 (in millions of EUR[1])
|
Items (Field/Domain) |
Household expenditures (in millions of EUR and percentages) |
Average per capita expenditure (EUR) |
||||
|
|
2018 |
% |
2020 |
% |
2018 |
2020 |
|
Cultural heritage |
174.2 |
6.5 |
127.5 |
6.5 |
16.4 |
11.9 |
|
Performing arts |
132.9 |
6.0 |
97.5 |
4.9 |
12.5 |
9.1 |
|
Visual arts |
166.0 |
5.5 |
157.7 |
8.1 |
15.6 |
14.7 |
|
Periodical and non-periodical press |
422.7 |
23.1 |
429.6 |
21.9 |
39.8 |
40.1 |
|
Audio-visual and interactive technology |
937.0 |
44.3 |
1 020.3 |
51.9 |
88.2 |
95.3 |
|
Architecture |
6.1 |
0.4 |
7.2 |
0.4 |
0.6 |
0.7 |
|
Advertising |
5.0 |
0.2 |
5.9 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
3.5 |
|
Arts education |
45.5 |
2.2 |
47.9 |
2.4 |
4.3 |
4.5 |
|
Administration in culture |
6.6 |
0.3 |
5.7 |
0.3 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
|
Other |
128.8 |
11.5 |
65.0 |
3.3 |
12.1 |
6.1 |
|
TOTAL |
2 024.8 |
100 |
1 964.3 |
100 |
190.5 |
186.4 |
Source: Results of the Culture Account for 2018, ČSÚ, NIPOS, Prague 2020. Results of the Culture Account for 2020, ČSÚ, NIPOS, Prague 2022.
[1] The exchange rate for 1 EUR in 2018 was 25.68 CZK and in 2020 it was 26.50 CZK.
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