Besides permanently employed, cultural institutions also had11,500 external associates (self-employed professionals in culture, sole proprietors, agency workers, students, volunteers and associates under a work contract or a contract for a copyrighted work); we can assume that those people did not work only for one institution, so we estimate that the average ratio is not 5 external associates per 1 regularly employed person, but less.
o, študente, prostovoljce in sodelavce po podjemni in avtorski pogodbi). Ker številni med njimi verjetno niso delali le v eni ustanovi, lahko sklepamo, da povprečno razmerje ni pet zunanjih sodelavcev na eno redno zaposleno osebo, ampak manj.