New research released by social mobility charity The Sutton Trust has revealed that the creative industries are disproportionately populated by those from ‘upper-middle-class backgrounds’ and those who were privately educated.
The report, titled A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries, is based on Higher Education Statistics Student Records and Graduate Outcome Survey Results for the academic years 2017-18 to 2021-22 (constituting around 1.1 million records), and on employment data from the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey in 2014-22 (with an average of 85,000 respondents per year).
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