Statistical processing

Source data

Information from the individual theaters reported via the electronic questionnaire to approximately 500 reporters. Reporting to the statistics is voluntary. The reports include information on individual productions, spectators and for the state-subsidized theaters, information about economic fundamentals for the season.

Frequency of data collection

Every year.

Data collection

Electronic questionnaire.

Data validation

Corrections is done based on reports from previous seasons. These are especially theater audiences such as The Royal Theater, Rural scenes, Self-theater and small-town theaters, etc. which is relatively stable from year to year. It is all theaters' activity that compares with reports from previous seasons. If there are major fluctuations, this is investigated further by contacting the theaters. In addition to debugging the individual units, data is validated based on the aggregated figures that can be found in the tables in the statistics bank.

Data compilation

In the 2022/2023 season, broadcasts were sent to about 452 theaters. The data collection started on september 22, 2023. Theaters that find it difficult to provide information are postponed, ie. possibility to report later. Data is processed and debugged on the individual theatres and by looking at aggregated numbers. The statistics only include theaters that have reported one or more activities (eg number of spectators or number of performances) on one or more of the productions. It is assumed that theaters that are registered as reported, but have not filled in information on attendance, number of performances, etc. have not been active during the season in question. The theaters that have not accessed the form (ie non-response) are imputed if they have reported the year before. If non-respnse has also been imputed to the season before, they will not be imputed again.

In 2022/2023, 38 pct. was non-response, where appr. 16 pct. was imputed. In 2021/2022, 43 pct. was non-response, where appr. 14 pct. was imputed. In 2020/2021, 46 pct. was non-response, where one out of five was imputed. 2019/2020 was 42 pct. non-response and one out of thee was imputed. In 2018/2019 24 pct. was nonresponse and half of the nonresponse was imputed. In the 2017/2018 season, there was 36 per cent. theaters that were non-response, and approx. one in five of non-response could be imputed from the 2016/2017 season.

Adjustment

No corrections are made to data other than what has already been described during data validation and data processing