• the representation of women varies greatly between the audio-visual industries - in broadcast TV, cable and satellite TV and film distribution women account for more than half of the workforce.  (Go to the Occupations section for more detail)
• the levels of female representation are lowest in electronic games (8%), processing labs (7%), facilities (22%), post production (26%) and offline multimedia (26%)
• 93% of the workforce in make-up and hairdressing are female
• 74% in costume/wardrobe are female
• 0.1% of the workforce in camera, lighting, sound and cinema projection are female

Source: Skillset website 2005

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• the representation of ethnic minorities has decreased slightly since 2003 from 7.4% to 7%
• in broadcast TV (9.1%), web and internet (9.3%) and cinema exhibition (9.1%) there are high levels of people from minority ethnic groups
• electronic games, offline multimedia, commercials and processing labs all employ less than 4% ethnic minorities
• the highest occupational level is among cinema cleaners (24%) and in journalism and sport (11.4%)  (Go to the Occupations section for more detail
• London based industries, such as independent production (5.1%), corporate production (4.7%), post-production (5.5%) and commercials (2.8%), all have low percentages of people working from ethnic minority groups in a region where 38% of the population of working age are ethnic minorities

Source: Skillset website 2005

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• overall, the reported proportion of disabled people employed in the sector has increased from 1% in 2003 to 1.3%
• on average the proportion of employees and freelancers that are disabled are similar
• broadcast TV (2.3%), web and internet (1.7%), broadcast radio (1.6%) and animation (1.6%) have the highest proportions of disabled people

Source: Skillset 2005b