What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Rental houses and crewing agencies (published rate cards), union/guild minimum rate schedules (IATSE, BECTU, Equity, ver.di), trade bodies… | Per item per day / per crew role per shift, updated seasonally or annually | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National/local authorities (temporary structure and public entertainment licences, pyrotechnics and explosives licences), business… | Per licence holder / per event permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (labour force surveys by NACE 90.3), unions and guilds (membership and rosters), crewing agencies, freelancer… | Individual contract/shift internally; monthly-quarterly sectoral aggregates… | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (Companies House, Handelsregister, INPI), credit bureaus (D&B, Creditsafe), arts councils publishing grantee accounts | Annual per legal entity | public |
| waste & emissions | Sustainability certification bodies for events, arts funders requiring environmental reporting (Arts Council England Environmental… | Per production or per event; annual per organisation | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | Outdoor staging contractors and event safety consultants using wind-load monitoring; national met services supplying site-specific forecasts | Per site, per hour during build/show periods | purchasable |
| inventory & supply chain | Lighting/sound/staging rental houses, scenery and prop stores, costume hire houses; rental management software vendors | Per asset (barcoded item) with availability calendar | partnership |
| energy consumption | Generator hire firms and temporary power contractors, festival sustainability consultants (Julie's Bicycle, A Greener Future), production… | Per event/site fuel-kWh totals; per generator run-hours | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Specialist entertainment freight forwarders and tour trucking firms (e.g. Rock-it Cargo, Transam, Beat the Street), ATA carnet issuers… | Per shipment/truck load per tour leg | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Occupational safety regulators (HSE RIDDOR, OSHA), event-industry insurers and brokers (e.g. specialist entertainment insurers), production… | Per incident; aggregated annually by regulator | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Electrical test (PAT) contractors, structural engineers certifying temporary demountable structures, notified bodies certifying rigging… | Per item/structure per test certificate | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Technical production companies, equipment rental houses (staging, lighting, sound), casting and crewing agencies, set construction… | Per job/contract line item and per rental order | exclusive |
| geospatial/movement | Tour logistics and trucking operators (telematics/GPS on production vehicles), touring routing software venders, festival site planners… | Per vehicle position ping; per site layout | exclusive |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Rental houses (kit utilisation rates), crewing agencies (crew day bookings), production service firms; venue technical departments | Per asset-day and per crew-member-day | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Rental houses and rigging contractors; LOLER/statutory inspection providers for hoists, trusses and flying systems; venue technical managers | Per asset per inspection/service event | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.