Do you Galicians read more Hoxe books than in the last 40 years? Do you need more than listening to us now?

Lese más hoxe or hai coenta años? Does the press have more readers? Are the movie theaters full or are they crowded? Are the cadeira two Galician theaters? OR Galician Culture Council (CCG) has just published a report da baixo o nome Forty years of Galician culture in statistics Answer many of these questions. Not all indicators have data that allow comparison of the situation from 1983 to 2003, so in some cases the periods are different, but in short, some of the main conclusions of this analysis are that Galicians have more hox cultural habits than at the beginning of the eighties. You must bear in mind, as I told the President of the Council, Rosario Álvarez, that there has been no continuous progress in these four decades, that is, it can be read less than five years ago, but more than 80 years ago. year. Data presented as follows: 1985, therefore, or 37% two Over 14 will have read a book in the last three months (46% in Spain), fronts or 55% give news, more than the national average. Read more press, triplicuses or number of books available for the home, although it is slightly lower than the annual purchase of these funds.

But I don’t know about books where Galicians live. People who play instruments increased from 5 to almost 9%, and those who made their debut increased from 5 to 15%. in the song do vocation for writingpasou dun marxinal 1 % a more dun 7 %, while those who practice dance or ballet multiplied by three. Obviously, the lack of technology has contributed to these cultural habits because photography lovers, for example, are or duplicate us. And if in 1986 there were 21 theaters per million inhabitants, today there are 36.

“Galicia was not at the cultural bottom in almost everything compared to the country as a whole, and now it is systematically above it,” Álvarez explained. Doubling the number of libraries, that is, concert halls and practically twice as many museums, “we never lacked creativity, but it was easy for him to walk without crutches,” he told the HCG president. Some of these advances have an explanation that goes more to their own interest than the Galicians might have because of their cultural habits. Coordinator of the Observatory of Galician Culture, Hakan Casares, explained that reading rates have increased “primarily because we came from a bad situation and because reading is more related to the educational field.” It cannot be said that the percentage of the population with compulsory education has increased in the last forty years, and compulsory education itself has expanded its application in the two years 14-16. reading printthat always foron in Galicia higher than the rest of the communities, in this case it tends towards tradition read or xornal no bar without poking the structure of the city of Galicia, more hazelnuts, because older people prefer the written press than you young people.

There is proportionally less investment

The only advantage of this report is investments. OR public spending non muda moito e same «I moved backwardsRosario Álvarez pointed out. Items have increased in absolute numbers, logically, but not proportionally. In the case of general state administration, in Galicia it amounted to 0.35 to 0.21%, in local administration it was intended for culture or 5.37% of two budgets, and now it was not 4.15%, and in Xunta it was 0.68 % in 1985 or 0.66% in 2020, i.e. the last year in which liquidated expenditures are available.

Work related to double culture in 22 years

Greater supply, greater production and greater consumption also come together more work and productive fabric. There is no report prepared by the Consello da Cultura Galega, keep in mind the evolution of this sector which in just over two decades (from 2000 to 2022) has undergone about 17,000 people plus 36,500 employed people, slightly more than two doubles. Its weight is analyzed in relation to other spheres of work, in the community or in cultural employment, from 1.7% in 2000 to 3.3% in 2022 in relation to the total active population. in the song do GDPthis sector assumes either 2.2% gross domestic product of the community. In particular, there are two areas that gather the largest percentage of workers, assembly and audiovisual.

The private sector of Galician culture has a lot to do with this increase in employment, as its evolution has been the most relevant. TO edition multiply by five in forty years, starting from 350 books per year out of more than 2,200. The growth is higher than in the rest of the country, which is why the community went from registering non-ISBN numbers or 1.4% of the total number of books to 2.3%. Starting in the 2000s, the audiovisual sector has grown significantly. The number of film production companies grew rapidly, and the resources and professionals associated with the music industry also doubled and tripled the initial numbers. The same happened in the theater field, because The national team more than doubled, and the number of spectators more than tripled.

Public administrations also had something to do with this evolution because although it is certain that the latest available data, from 2020, is not the best for comparison, there will be ups and downs in the past 40 years. Not in 2005, for example, the Xunta cheugo spent 1.3% of its budget on culture, but after that it decreased again.

This Saturday, July 8, marks the anniversary of the Consello da Cultura

It would be “nonsense” to think that all this evolution of two cultural habits was deliberately caused Galician Culture Council, as I modestly pointed out to President Rosario Álvarez himself. But from the logo it cannot be denied that this institution was another pillar in the development of the country, and above all in the promotion of its culture. An institution that does exactly this On Saturday, July 8, he celebrates thirty years of life with the approval of Law 8/1983 of the Galician Cultural Council, with the purpose of defending and promoting the cultural values ​​of the Galician people in accordance with or provided for in Article 32 of the Statute of Autonomy.