In 2014, they were attended by 745,400 theatregoers or on average by 157 per performance. The Eurobarometer survey on cultural access and participation in the EU , which was conducted in April and May 2013, shows: - how many people in individual countries visited the theatre at least once in the 12 months before the interview: attendance in Slovenia was 33%; it was the highest (54%) both in Sweden and the Netherlands and the lowest (13%) in Portugal; the EU average was 28%, - why some people did not visit a theatre: 36% of people in Slovenia stated lack of interest (the same as the EU average), 27% stated lack of time (EU average: 22%), 18% thought that performances were too expensive (EU average: 20%), 10% stated limited choice or poor quality of performances in the place where they lived (EU average: 12%), and the remaining 9% stated other reasons (EU average: 10%).
Iz raziskave Eurobarometer o dostopnosti kulture in o udejstvovanju v kulturi v EU , ki je potekala od aprila do maja 2013, lahko izvemo tudi: - koliko prebivalcev posamezne države je v zadnjih 12 mesecih pred anketiranjem vsaj enkrat obiskalo gledališče:v Sloveniji je bilo takih prebivalcev 33%, na Švedskem in Nizozemskem po 53% (največ), na Portugalskem pa le13% (najmanj); povprečje za celotno EU je bilo 28%; - iz kakšnih razlogov nekateri v tem času niso nikoli obiskali gledališča: 36% takih prebivalcev Slovenije je odgovorilo, da jih tedaj gledališke predstave niso zanimale (v EU v povprečju prav toliko), 27% jih ni našlo časa za gledališče (v EU: 22%), 18% jih je menilo, da so gledališke predstave predrage (v EU: 20%), 10%, da predstave v njihovem okolju niso dovolj kakovostne (v EU: 12%), preostalih 9% pa je navedlo druge razloge (v EU: 10%).