Digging culture and doing culture

Original title: Cultuurbewonderaars en cultuurbeoefenaars.

There are people who love art and culture and there are people who practise it; people who enjoy it and people who are themselves creative in their leisure time. Who are these culture-lovers and practitioners? How has participation in culture changed over recent decades? Have there been any shifts in the profiles of those who admire and those who practise culture? How has the use of media developed, such as books, television and the Internet, and more specifically the use of media for art and culture? How culturally interested and active are the Dutch compared with other Europeans? These kinds of questions are discussed extensively in this report.

The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP carries out a large-scale population survey every four years to monitor cultural participation. The most recent survey was held in the autumn of 2007. This publication is an update of the SCP report Culture-lovers and culture-leavers (Cultuurminnaars en cultuurmijders) from 2005.