Cultural spending is the set of expenditures that individuals incur to purchase or benefit from cultural products and services such as books, music, travel, recreation and entertainment, film and theater, clothing, religious rituals, and so on. This report is presented with the aim of analyzing Iranian households' cultural consumption from 1396 (2017/18) through 1401 (2022/23) and specifically for 1401 (2022/23) on the basis of a secondary analysis of the Statistical Centre of Iran's raw data. On the basis of these data, 308 cultural expenditure codes under 16 different sections have been extracted. This report covers 19,567 urban-area household samples and 18,384 rural-area household samples nationwide. The results have been presented in the form of statistical reports including the total, average, and share of cultural consumption of households' total annual expenditures on the basis of urban–rural household, income decile, gender, education, marital status, employment status, and so on.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian