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DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates 2017 (provisional): Gross Value Added

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 9 December 2019

Funding and economy Social Enterprise

This release provides estimates of the contribution of DCMS Sectors to the UK economy, measured by gross value added (GVA). This includes an estimate of the CIVIL SOCIETY sector.

[see also: the NCVO Almanac for an estimate of the economic contribution of the voluntary sector: https://data.ncvo.org.uk/impact/ ]

These releases enable stakeholders to value the economic contribution of DCMS Sectors, which are not traditional National Account sectors, and to understand how current and future policy interventions can be most effective. Other economic measures, such as employment, trade and number of businesses are available in separate publications.

The DCMS Sectors cover:  Civil Society  Creative Industries  Cultural Sector  Digital Sector  Gambling  Sport  Telecoms  Tourism

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Last modified on 9 December 2019

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