American Community Survey [Artists Extract], 2003-2005 Prepared by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from data collected by the Census Bureau. NEA extracted public use microdata samples (PUMS) relevant to research about artist occupations into Artist Extract Files to reduce file size and reduce time and costs for researchers interested in analyzing these data. Contains records of all persons in households with one or more persons having a detailed occupation code considered "artist" by NEA.
aDvANCE Project [2003] Sample surveys of current and former dancers in United States, Australia, and Switzerland.
American Perceptions of Artists Survey (2002) Benchmark study of the general public's opinions about the lifestyles and work of artists in the United States. Consists of a national survey of adults in the continental United States and 9 local surveys conducted in the following metropolitan areas: Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.
Americans and the Arts Series of 5 studies conducted between 1973 and 1992. Measures participation in and attitudes about the arts and arts in education.
Antecedents of Artistic Success: A Study of the Early Lives of Women Visual Artists Study of 30 women between the ages of 26 and 45 who considered themselves to be professional sculptors, graphic artists, metalsmiths, ceramists, and photographers, conducted in 1975. Includes demographic data, test scores, and interview transcripts. Application must be made directly to the Henry A. Murray Research Archive for permission to use the data.
Artists Training and Career Project Studied the training and career choices and patterns of craftspeople, painters, and actors through national surveys of a sampling of artists in each discipline. Topics include training and preparation, acceptance in the marketplace, critical evaluation, public response, involvement in professional organizations, and career satisfaction.
Census of Population and Housing [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample: Artist Extract File (1970-2000) Contains records of all persons in households with one or more persons having a detailed occupation code considered "artist" by the NEA. These occupations include: actors and directors; announcers; architects; authors; dancers; designers; musicians and composers; painters, sculptors, craft-artists, and artist printmakers; photographers; teachers of art, drama, and music in higher education; and artists, performers, and related workers not elsewhere classified.
Central Opera Service Bulletin (1966-1989) The performance listings of the Central Opera Service Bulletin includes opera performances and workshops held U.S. nationwide and the world. Listed information includes performance organization names, location, opera title, and staff involved in the performances.
Changing Channels and Crisscrossing Cultures: A Survey of Latinos on the News Media Getting the news could be the single most extensive cross-cultural experience for the Hispanic population in America. A growing number of Hispanics switch between English and Spanish to get the news. This survey shows that many more Latinos get at least some of their news in both English and Spanish than in just one language or the other.
Community Arts Survey (1998) Data on the leisure and arts-related activities of local residents in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Community Indicators Survey (1999-2002) Undertaken by the Knight Foundation to document the social health of the 26 communities in which the Knight brothers published newspapers. Local area surveys were conducted in each of the 26 communities in both 1999 and 2002. In 2002, a number of the local area surveys were supplemented with regional surveys or surveys of a neighboring city. National surveys were also conducted in order to provide comparative benchmark measures. Measured citizens' civic engagement and attitudes concerning 7 topic areas: education, arts and culture, children and social welfare, community development, homelessness, literacy, and citizenship.
CPANDA - Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive Digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. The core mission of CPANDA is to acquire, archive, document and preserve high quality data sets on key topics in arts and cultural policy, and make them available in a user-friendly format to scholars, journalists, policy makers, artists, cultural organizations, and the public.
Craft Artist Membership Organizations Survey 1978 Data on membership characteristics, organizational structure, organizational purposes and activities, funding, and the problems faced by craft artist membership organizations.
Creative Community Index [Silicon Valley] Quantitative measures of cultural participation & creativity in the Silicon Valley. The 1st wave, conducted in 2002, consisted of 2 surveys: one survey measured the breadth & frequency of cultural participation by residents of Santa Clara County, and another survey gathered a range of data about the current health & vitality of nonprofit arts & culture organizations in the region. The 2nd wave, in 2005, also consisted of 2 surveys: one survey asked leaders about their organization's ability to attract and retain creative workers to Silicon Valley, as well as their participation, as an individual and with children, in arts and related activities; the other survey asked adult residents of Santa Clara County about their behavior and beliefs regarding arts and culture in their community.
Cultural Participation Survey 1998 Measured leisure time activities, organizational involvement attendance at arts and culture events, and personal participation in arts and cultural activities by individuals in the Kansas City metropolitan area; Humboldt County, California; Mayfair (San Jose), California; Milpitas, California; and Gilroy, California.
Humanities Indicators Prototype Quantitative descriptive statistics that chart trends over time in aspects of the humanities: education, the workforce, funding and research, and their role in American life.
Information on Artists (1989-2007) Studied American artists' work-related human and social service needs in 1989, 1997, and 2004, and 2007. The initial study included artists from 10 cities: Boston, Cape Cod, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and western Massachusetts. The 1997 wave was conducted in 4 of the original cities: Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York, & San Francisco. The 2004 wave consisted only of artists in the San Francisco Bay area and included a longitudinal component. The 2007 provides the first needs assessment of aging artists in the New York Metro Area. The surveys asked questions about artists' work-related, human and social service needs, including health coverage and insurance, life insurance, retirement plans, credit, live/work space, legal and financial service needs.
Local Area Arts Participation Study 1992 Information about Americans' participation in the arts -- including ballet, opera, plays, museums, and concerts -- in 12 communities. Was intended to augment the 1992 national Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Each survey included 3 components: a "core questionnaire," common to all 12 sites, including arts participation and demographic information identical to the 1992 national SPPA; a set of questions, common to all sites but not included in the 1992 national SPPA, concerning facilities where arts participation occurred, reasons for not attending more often, and sources of information about arts events; and community-specific modules, developed by the local area partners to address specific information needs in each community. The 12 communities surveyed were Broward County, FL; Chicago, IL; Dade County, FL; Las Vegas, NV; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Reno, NV; rural Nevada; San Jose, CA; Seattle, WA; Sedona, AZ; and Winston-Salem, NC.
Museum Program Study 1979 Collected data from 1,373 nonprofit museums in 50 states & the District of Columbia. Purpose of the study was to estimate the characteristics & educational roles of the nonprofit museum universe.
National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support (1998-2001) Data on public and private support for professional nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. Includes a national survey and surveys of local government; Amery, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; New Orleans, Lousiana; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; and San Jose, California.
National Social Survey (2002, 2004) General survey measuring indicators of social health and a social health survey with a larger component devoted to culture and creativity. Designed to provide an in-depth view of the nation's social health by examining how Americans experience important aspects of daily life, such as social and economic well-being and community participation and engagement.
National Survey of Volunteering and Charitable Giving, 2006-2007 Follow-up to the Citizenship Survey, 2005 (Note: Citizenship Survey has been conducted biennially since 2001). The aim was to explore how and why people give unpaid help to organizations, and what they think of their experiences; what stops people from volunteering or giving money to charity; and how and why people give money to charity. It builds upon the National Survey of Volunteering (1991. 1997) and provides some insights into how things have changed since then. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.
Sample Size: just over 2,700 adults in households in England
New Jersey Dance Needs Assessment Project (2005) Aimed to develop a comprehensive profile of New Jersey’s dance workforce and to better understand the most critical needs confronting the dance community. The dance community members were defined as the dancers and workers involved in dance, and included individual choreographers, performers, folk and traditional artists as well as administrators and educators, managers, dancers, costumers, and designers throughout New Jersey.
Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002 Collaborative project that seeks to improve the way performing arts organizations gather information. The process is being developed in ten cities and involves four types of data collection: administrative data, audience surveys, subscriber surveys, and household surveys.
Reporting the Arts II (2003) Analyzed arts-and-culture coverage by 17 metropolitan and 3 national daily newspapers.
Six Cities Trusteeship Project Designed to chart and understand the changes in the scope, scale, diversity, growth, & role of nonprofit trusteeship in the United States from 1931 to 1991. Data collection was divided into 6 discrete projects centered around Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Los Angeles, & Atlanta. Each research team was responsible for identifying the 15 organizations in their city that fit the criteria of largest 501(c)(3) secular hospital, Protestant hospital, Catholic hospital, Jewish hospital, art museum, symphony orchestra, United Way, institution of higher education, Junior League, community foundation, YMCA, YWCA, secular family services, Catholic family services, and Jewish family services. Resulted in a board-level data set of about 90 organizations that would be directly comparable across cities; researchers then collected biographical information on the trustees of each organization during the years 1931, 1961, & 1991.
Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, 2000 Comprises both a national sample of some 3,000 respondents and community respondents in 41 communities nationwide (across 29 states) covering an additional 26,700 respondents. Measures everything from levels of giving blood, to hanging out with friends, to participating in various groups and associations, to levels of trust, to participation in group arts and group sports, to the diversity of our friendship patterns.
State of the First Amendment [1997 - 2006] Collects data on Americans' attitudes towards First Amendment issues, including freedom of expression and tolerance for art that may be offensive to others.
Study of Jazz Artists 2001 Data on the working & living situations of jazz musicians in New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, & Detroit.
Success and Failure in Cultural Markets Motivated by a puzzling aspect of contemporary cultural markets: successful cultural products, such as hit songs , bestselling books, and blockbuster movies, are orders of magnitude more successful than average; yet which particular songs, books, and movies will become the next "big thing" appears impossible to predict.
Survey of Arts and Cultural Organizations [2000] Operating characteristics, performance/exhibition venues, audience expansion & diversification strategies, and organizational partnerships of government or not-for-profit art & culture organizations in the Kansas City metropolitan area; Humboldt County, California; Silicon Valley, California; Southeastern Michigan; and Boston, Massachusetts.
Survey of Public Participation in the Arts [1982 - 2008] Collects data on Americans' participation in the arts, including the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts. Conducted every 5 years by the Research Division of the National Endowment for the Arts. The 1982, 1985 and 1992 surveys were conducted by the Bureau of the Census, as a supplement to a larger national survey, the National Crime Survey (NCS). The 1997 survey was conducted by Westat. The 2002 and 2008 surveys were conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a supplement to the Current Population Survey.
Survey of the Arts in Everyday Life 2002 Examined the involvement of Chicago-area individuals in "informal" arts activities, such as acting in community theater, singing in a church choir, writing poetry at the local library, or painting portraits in a home studio. Participants in informal arts activities in twelve different settings were asked about their art work, the characteristics of art groups to which they belong, their interactions with other artists, their working situation as artists, their opinions concerning arts opportunities in their neighborhoods, and their levels of participation in various arts, cultural, and civic activities.
