At the end of 2016, the Statistical Register of Employment included 291 people who performed this occupation as their principal occupation and participated in compulsory social insurance. For comparison, at present the Slovene Writers’ Association has 317 members.
V Statistični register delovno aktivnega prebivalstva (SRDAP) je bilo konec leta 2016 vpisanih 291 oseb, ki so opravljale ta poklic kot primarni in ki so bile vključene v obvezno socialno zavarovanje (za primerjavo: v Društvu slovenskih pisateljev je trenutno včlanjenih 317 pisateljic in pisateljev).