Expenditure settled on culture in relation to total budgets, by level of administration (thousands of euros %).

The Basque Observatory of Culture was born to place culture as a central element of social and economic development, with the mission of rigorously filling the information gap in the cultural field, in line with the Basque Plan of Culture of which it is part. The Observatory’s scope of action focuses on the traditional areas of culture: cultural heritage, artistic creation and expression, industries and cross-cutting areas.The Basque Observatory of Culture publishes and updates more than 200 statistical indicators that can be consulted in euskadi.eus along with other research and reports.