Statistics Portugal releases, on an annual basis, the publication Estatísticas da Cultura, Desporto e Recreio (statistics on Cultural, Sports and Recreation activities), which discloses the main results from a specific cultural areas, as well as sports information. This issue releases information for 2002 in the fields of cultural heritage, visual arts, books and press, performing arts, public financing of cultural activities, broadcasting and sports. With the purpose of providing users with general data that enable a characterisation of culture, an analysis of results is also published, with developments the main indicators and a table containing summary information. Although this publication generally maintains the same type of information as in previous issues, a change was introduced in the libraries sub-chapter. Hence, information on the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s itinerant libraries is not included in this publication, given that they are now under the responsibility of the respective municipality and may be subsequently inserted in the public library network.
Instituto Nacional de Estatística - Culture, Sport and Recreation Statistics : 2002. Lisboa : INE, 2003. Available at www: <url:https://www.ine.pt/xurl/pub/129614>. ISSN 0870-1628. ISBN 972-673-702-8