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Cultural Industries

Program code
ACU00 (CH)
Core responsibility
Canadian artistic expressions and cultural content are created and accessible at home and abroad.
In Departmental Plans
Not in a Departmental Plan · actual spending 2010-11 – 2017-18

What it does

GC InfoBase has no Program Inventory description for this program.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2010-11. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2010-112011-122012-132013-142014-152015-162016-172017-18Cultural Industries 2010-11: $304MCultural Industries 2011-12: $311MCultural Industries 2012-13: $304MCultural Industries 2013-14: $303MCultural Industries 2014-15: $296MCultural Industries 2015-16: $299MCultural Industries 2016-17: $304MCultural Industries 2017-18: $309MCultural Industries
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Cultural IndustriesThis program2010-11 – 2017-18$2.43B

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

No significant changes detected.

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2013-14: $303M2013-142014-15: $296M2014-152015-16: $299M2015-162016-17: $304M2016-172017-18: $309M2017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14—$303M
2014-15—$296M
2015-16—$299M
2016-17—$304M
2017-18—$309M

Employees (FTEs)

2013-14: 2212013-14: 2492013-142014-15: 2332014-15: 2382014-152015-16: 2372015-16: 2332015-162016-17: 2272016-17: 2382016-172017-18: 2472017-18: 2482017-18
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2013-14221249
2014-15233238
2015-16237233
2016-17227238
2017-18247248

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Plan
Actual

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.