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The Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) 2024 Supplement is part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The CPS is a source of official Government statistics on employment and unemployment. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.

The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage, and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.

In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and supplemental income components. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey.

The occupation and industry information variables in this data collection can help the data users identify individuals who worked in arts and culture related fields. The occupations are listed in a category entitled "Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations," which includes professions such as artists, designers, actors, musicians, and writers (see Appendix B of the User's Guide for further category details). Industries related to the arts and culture are in the "Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation" category (see Appendix A of the User's Guide for further category details). For example, using the occupation and industry information variables from the ASEC help data users to obtain statistics about people in artists' occupations that receive supplemental income, live public housing, or are full-time students.

The ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit.

The Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) 2025 Supplement is part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The CPS is a source of official Government statistics on employment and unemployment. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.

The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage, and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.

In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full-time, total income and supplemental income components. Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey.

The occupation and industry information variables in this data collection can help the data users identify individuals who worked in arts and culture related fields. The occupations are listed in a category entitled "Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations," which includes professions such as artists, designers, actors, musicians, and writers (see Appendix B of the User's Guide for further category details). Industries related to the arts and culture are in the "Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation" category (see Appendix A of the User's Guide for further category details). For example, using the occupation and industry information variables from the ASEC help data users to obtain statistics about people in artists' occupations that receive supplemental income, live public housing, or are full-time students.

The ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit.

The 2021 Profile of Youth Arts Incubators and Workforce Initiatives dataset is a specialized repository developed as part of the 2021 Profile of Arts Incubators initiative, led by the Arts Incubation Research (AIR) Lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). This dataset spans more than 70 youth-focused arts incubators and organizations across the United States, cataloguing their diverse approaches to connecting young people with opportunities in arts, technology, entrepreneurship, and workforce development. The repository is designed to support research, collaboration, and strategic planning for stakeholders in youth development, education, and community engagement.

The Profile of Youth Arts Incubators and Workforce Initiatives dataset builds on the work of the previously released Profile of Arts Incubators, United States, 2021 (ICPSR 38682). Both Profile of Arts Incubators studies are designed to empower research, policy, and practice in arts-based development and creative entrepreneurship.

The Consumer Expenditure Survey (CE) program consists of two surveys: the quarterly Interview survey and the annual Diary survey. Combined, these two surveys provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics. The survey data are collected for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) by the U.S. Census Bureau. The CE collects all on all spending components including food, housing, apparel and services, transportation, entertainment, and out-of-pocket health care costs.

The CE tables are an easy-to-use tool for obtaining arts-related spending estimates. They feature several arts-related spending categories, including the following items:

Spending on Admissions

• Plays, theater, opera, and concerts
• Movies, parks, and museums

Spending on Reading

• Newspapers and magazines
• Books
• Digital book readers

Spending on Other Arts-Related Items

• Musical instruments
• Photographic equipment
• Audio-visual equipment
• Toys, games, arts and crafts

The CE is important because it is the only Federal survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes, as well as the characteristics of those consumers. It is used by economic policymakers examining the impact of policy changes on economic groups, by the Census Bureau as the source of thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure, by businesses and academic researchers studying consumers' spending habits and trends, by other Federal agencies, and, perhaps most importantly, to regularly revise the Consumer Price Index market basket of goods and services and their relative importance.

The most recent data tables are for 2024 and include: 1) Detailed tables with the most granular level of expenditure data available, along with variances and percent reporting for each expenditure item, for all consumer units (listed as "Other" in the Download menu); and 2) Tables with calendar year aggregate shares by demographic characteristics that provide annual aggregate expenditures and shares across demographic groups (listed as "Excel" in the Download menu).

Also, see Featured CE Tables and Economic News Releases sections on the CE home page for current data tables and news release. The 1980 through 2024 CE public-use microdata, including Interview Survey data, Diary Survey data, and paradata (information about the data collection process), are available on the CE website.

This study examined the effects of public art installations on firearm violence and youth firearm victimization in Detroit. The study also examined the potential moderating effects of the level of community engagement in the development of public artworks on the relationship between public artworks and firearm violence in Detroit. The researchers hypothesized that installations of public artworks would have protective effects for firearm incidents and youth-involved firearm incidents, as measured by completely de-identified crime data provided to their research team by the Michigan State Police (data set not publicly available).

Through this study, the researchers also collected survey and interview data from adults to understand the costs of public artworks and the level of community engagement in the development of public artworks. The researchers hypothesized that higher levels of community engagement in the development of public artworks would enhance the protective effects of public art on firearm violence and youth firearm violence victimization because it would foster protective social resources in communities, such as social capital and social control, that are critical for reducing crime and violence. The researchers also conducted preliminary cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses to inform practitioners and policymakers about the feasibility of expanding programming for community-engaged art installations.

The Specific Aims of This Study Are As Follows:

• Aim 1: Examine the effect of art installation projects on total firearm crime incidents involving youth under 18.
• Aim 2: Examine how the level of community engagement in the art installation projects may enhance the effects on firearm crime incidents.
• Aim 3: Conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of different types of public art and firearm incidents prevented.

The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) 2022 collection is comprised of responses from two sets of surveys, the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the SPPA supplement to the CPS administered in July 2022. This supplement asked questions about public participation in the arts within the United States, and was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The CPS, administered monthly by the U.S. Census Bureau, collects labor force data about the civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 15 years or older living in the United States. The CPS provides current estimates of the economic status and activities of this population which includes estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment. The basic CPS items in this data provide labor force activity for the week prior to the survey. In addition, the CPS provides respondents' demographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, marital status, educational attainment, family relationships, occupation, and industry.

In addition to the basic CPS questions, interviewers asked supplementary questions on public participation in the arts of two randomly selected household members aged 18 or older from about one-half of the sampled CPS households. The supplement contained questions about the respondent's participation in various artistic activities over the last year. If the selected respondent had a spouse or partner, then the respondent answered questions on behalf of their spouse/partner and the spouse/partner responses are proxies.

The 2022 SPPA included two core components: Core 1 (C1Q1A-C1Q17A) and Core 2 (C2Q1A-C2Q1R) asked respondents if they attended any artistic events or live performances, and if so, how often and where. Questions were also asked about any books the respondent may have read.

In addition, the SPPA supplement included four modules designed to capture other types of arts participation. The four modules were separated by topic:

• Module A (MAQ1A-MAQ5D) asked respondents if they used electronic devices or electronic media to watch or listen to artistic performances and if so, how often. Questions were also asked about sharing information related to artistic performances.
• Module B (MBQ1A-MBQ4A) and Module C (MCQ1A-MCQ7) asked if the respondent performed any artistic activities (e.g., singing, dancing, playing instrument, painting, photography, etc), and if so, how often and where. Questions were also asked about participation in certain hobbies such as exercising, sports activities, hunting, gardening, etc., and if so, how often.
• Module D (MDQ1A-MDQ4H) asked if you've ever taken lessons in music, photography, filmmaking, visual arts, acting, theater, dance, creative writing, art history, art or music appreciation, creative coding, computer animation, or digital art. A follow-up question (MDQ2) is asked about if the classes were taken in school. Another follow-up question (MDQ3) is then 3-2 asked if they have done that activity within the last 12 months. A final follow-up question (MDQ4) is then asked if they learned that activity through other means not involving lessons or classes.

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Performance Dataset, 1958-89, was developed to support the Radical Accounting project, which explores the transmission of dance knowledge and the historical growth of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) from a small touring company to a global institution. The dataset, curated by Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench, comprises detailed records of 4,143 performances in 505 cities across 66 countries, compiled and verified using over 30,000 archival documents and personal materials. It highlights previously underdocumented venues and events, foregrounds the collective histories of dance artists, and aims for accuracy through extensive archival research and consultation with company legacy holders.

Commissioned for the Whitney Museum's "Edges of Ailey" exhibition, the dataset excludes related troupes and solo performances not billed as AAADT, instead focusing on public performances, repertory, and venues connected directly to AAADT between 1958 and 1989.

The accompanying user guide clarifies curation decisions and explains the relational structure of the data to support robust historical research.

A crucial segment of the U.S. artist population is largely uncounted in federal population and labor surveys because they do not structure their artmaking in a way that those surveys typically define and measure "work" and "labor." Thus, there is insufficient data on the number of working artists nationwide and how their lives and livelihoods are structured. This limits the ability of funders and policymakers to make crucial decisions about how best to support them.

With support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) engaged artists, sector experts, and researchers to inform a new survey reaching an expansive, nationally representative sample of artists. This sample includes the previously "invisible" population of artists who were recruited from NORC's AmeriSpeak panel and multiple nonprobability panels.

Their survey explores the following questions:

• How many artists live and work in the United States today?
• Who are these artists?
• How do they describe their creative practice(s)?
• How are their work arrangements structured?
• How do they support themselves financially?
• What can be learned about their physical and mental health and wellbeing?

The National Congregations Study (NCS) is a national survey effort to gather information about America's congregations. The first wave of the NCS took place in 1998, and the study was repeated in 2006-07, 2012, and 2018-19. The NCS tracks continuity and change among American congregations, and each NCS wave also explores new subjects.

With information from 5,333 congregations collected over a span of more than 20 years, the NCS helps us better understand many aspects of congregational life in the United States, and how congregations are changing in the 21st century. The NCS contributes to knowledge about American religion by collecting information about a wide range of congregations' characteristics and activities at different points in time.

In all four waves, the NCS was conducted in conjunction with the General Social Survey (GSS). The 1998, 2006, 2012, and 2018 waves of the GSS asked respondents who attend religious services to name their congregation, thus generating a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Researchers then located these congregations. In 2006, the sample included re-interviews of a subset of congregations that participated in 1998, and in 2018-19, the sample included re-interviews of a subset of congregations that participated in 2012.

A key informant at each congregation - a minister, priest, rabbi, or other staff person or leader - provided each congregation's information via a one-hour interview conducted either over the phone or in-person. The survey gathered information on many topics, including the congregation's leadership, social composition, structure, activities, and programming. The NCS gathers information about worship, programs, staffing, community activities, demographics, funding, and many other characteristics of American congregations. Respondents of the NCS survey were asked to describe the worship service and programs sponsored by the congregation other than the main worship services, including religious education classes, musical groups, and recreational programs. Informants described the type of building in which the congregation met, whether it belonged to the congregation, and whether visitors came just to view the building's architecture or artwork. Congregations were geocoded, and selected census variables are included in this study.

The Everyday Itinerary Dataset is the first public-use dataset in the Dunham's Data series, a unique data collection created by Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) to explore questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham.

It is a manually curated dataset of Katherine Dunham's touring from 1937-1962, encompassing Dunham's daily locations, travel, and performances. This dataset tracks geographic location and, less comprehensively, the accommodation in which Dunham stayed each night; the theatres, nightclubs, television studios, and other places where she and the company performed; the modes of transportation used when travel occurred; additional transit cities through which she passed; and whether or not Dunham was likely to be in rehearsals or giving public performances.

Dunham's Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry is funded by the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/R012989/1, 2018-2022) and is part of a larger suite of ongoing digital collaborations by Bench and Elswit, Movement on the Move. The Dunham's Data team also includes digital humanities postdoctoral research assistant Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard and dance history postdoctoral research assistants Takiyah Nur Amin and Tia-Monique Uzor.

The Repertory Dataset is the third public-use dataset in the Dunham's Data series, a unique data collection created by Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) to explore questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham.

The Repertory Dataset catalogues the various titles and descriptions in Dunham's repertory by which a piece might be known, the years in which it was performed, and all of the singers, dancers, and drummers who were listed as performing in it. The Repertory dataset documents other aspects of each work such as composers of the music, the varying numbers of performers, places of inspiration where available, and whether pieces were performed in concert venues, nightclubs, or both. It also tracks fluid relationships among nearly 300 numbers identified in Dunham's repertory from the 1930s onwards by examining the various scales at which Dunham repurposed choreographic elements over time and for different performance venues, and therefore the alternative ways that works might connect individual performers.

Dunham's Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry is part of a larger suite of ongoing digital collaborations in Movement on the Move.

Launched in 2021, the National Survey of Nonprofit Trends and Impacts is a multiyear panel study conducted by the Urban Institute in collaboration with American University and George Mason University. Discussions about this initiative began in 2015, with input from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) and numerous scholars across the nation. This nationally representative study investigates various aspects of nonprofit organizations, including programs and services, staffing and volunteerism, fundraising, donations, financial health, and government engagement. The insights aim to help nonprofit leaders establish sustainable and effective organizations and provide guidance to policymakers, funders, and the public to enhance support for the nonprofit sector.

Researchers interested in the arts and cultural sector can identify arts and cultural 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations using the "nteecc_3code" variable, which is based on the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) codes found in the June 2024 IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File.

Public-use data files and codebooks are available for download at https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/national-survey-nonprofit-trends-and-impacts-public-use-files.

For comprehensive information about the project, including reports, analyses, and access to restricted data, please visit the project page: https://www.urban.org/partnering-understand-long-term-trends-nonprofit-organization-activities-and-needs.

The Household Pulse Survey (HPS) is a 20-minute online survey that measures how emergent social and economic issues impact households across the country. The data collected enable the Census Bureau to produce statistics at the national and state levels and for the 15 largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas (metro areas).

Between April of 2020 to September 2024 the Census Bureau's experimental HPS measured how emergent issues are impacting U.S. households from a social and economic perspective. The last cross-sectional data collection for the Phase 4.2 of the HPS started on July 23, 2024, and ended on September 16, 2024, with the final data released on October 3, 2024. The complete Household Pulse Survey Technical Documentation is available here.

The HPS collaborated with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to deliver relevant arts-related insights. The arts component of the survey collected data on participation in cultural activities, with variables such as attendance at live music, dance, or theater performances ("LIVENTERTAINMENT"), visits to art exhibits ("ARTEXHIBIT"), movie attendance ("MOVIES"), personal involvement in creating or performing art ("CREATEART"), and perceptions of local arts opportunities ("PARTINARTS").

Public-use data files and interactive tools are freely available on the Census website.

For detailed insights into arts and entertainment participation during the Phase 4.2 Cycle 09 (August 20 - September 16) of the Household Pulse Survey, users can refer to the following tables:

• Table 1. In-person Attendance of Arts and Entertainment During the Last Month, by Select Characteristics [< 1.0 MB]
• Table 2. Personal Creation, Practice, and Performance of Art During the Last Month, by Select Characteristics [< 1.0 MB]
• Table 3. Available Neighborhood or Community Arts and Cultural Activities, by Select Characteristics [< 1.0 MB]

To download the latest public-use files for December 2024 (December 17, 2024, to January 3, 2025), please use the following links:

• HPS December 2024 PUF SAS [11.2 MB]
• HPS December 2024 PUF CSV [13.4 MB]

Relaunched in January 2025 as the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS), the survey continues to deliver rapid insights into national events with social and economic impacts.

The Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly sample survey involving about 60,000 households that provides valuable data on (un)employment in the United States. The Contingent and Alternative Employment Arrangements supplement focuses on individuals whose primary jobs are temporary or expected to last only a limited period of time as well as those with alternative employment arrangements (i.e., working as independent contractors, as on-call workers, through temporary help agencies, or through contract firms). Questions were asked about the two types of employment, contingent and alternative, separately as some individuals fell into both categories, some in one but not the other, and some in neither.

This data collection includes variables related to occupation and industry, enabling data users to identify individuals working in arts- and culture-related fields. These occupations fall under categories such as leisure, hospitality, and agriculture, as well as related industries like arts, entertainment, recreation, design, sports, and media. This encompasses professions such as artists, architects, designers, actors, musicians, and writers. Jobs in some of these occupations are especially likely to be categorized as contingent or alternative, so this information is necessary to fully understand the employment experiences of those in art- and culture-related fields.

Before July 2023, data on contingent and alternative employment arrangements were collected periodically from February 1995 to May 2017. The concepts and definitions used in the supplement are detailed in the Technical Note in the BLS news release. For more information, see the FAQs on contingent and alternative employment arrangements.

The World Cities Culture Forum, established in 2012, is a leading global network of civic leaders from over 40 creative cities across six continents, representing a combined population of over 245 million. The forum fosters collaborations to place culture at the core of urban development, addressing 21st-century challenges such as climate change, affordable workspaces, cultural tourism, and diversity in public spaces. Through its Global Summit, partnerships, and programs like the Leadership Exchange Programme and Digital Dialogue Masterclasses, the forum promotes cultural integration in city planning. The World Cities Culture Report 2022 provides comprehensive open-source data on culture, including over 60 datasets from 40 cities.

• Contextual Data: Includes demographics such as characteristics of the overall and working-age populations (including percent who were foreign born) and of the geographical area, such as the percentage of national population living in the city and the percentage of the area devoted to parks and other public green spaces.
• Cultural Infrastructure: Provides counts (and rates) of various facilities and venues, including art galleries, artists' studios, rehearsal spaces, bars, bookshops, cinemas, community centers, concert halls, museums, nightclubs, libraries, video game arcades, and theatres.
• Participation and Tourism: Focuses on cultural participation metrics, such as cinema and theatre admissions, festival attendance, museum visits, average daily attendance at the top five art exhibits, and international tourist numbers.
• Creative Economy: Encompasses data on book publishing, creative industries employment, film festivals, restaurant ratings, and performances.
• Education: Includes statistics on public library book loans, higher education levels, international student enrollment, and specialist institutes in art and design education.

The source for each number is identified within the dataset. Data users can freely download selected datasets as .csv files.

The School Pulse Panel (SPP), sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the United States Department of Education, collects insightful data on U.S. public schools. Originally focusing on the 2021-22 school year to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students and staff, the survey has since broadened its scope to address various evolving educational topics. Conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the SPP continues into the 2024-25 school year, surveying school principals monthly on key issues such as staffing, attendance, after-school programs, learning recovery, digital literacy, mental health, and more.

The September 2021 SPP survey asked about schools' offering performing arts activities (for example, band, choir, orchestra, or drama) and how these activities were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

For detailed information on the survey content and methodology, visit the NCES website.

The American Community Survey (ACS), conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, replaced the long form of the decennial census in 2000. The ACS allows researchers, policy makers, and others access to timely information about the U.S. population to make decisions about infrastructure and distribution of federal funds. The monthly survey is sent to a sample of approximately 3.5 million U.S. addresses, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. The ACS includes questions on topics not included in the decennial census, such as those about occupations and employment, education, and key areas of infrastructure like internet access and transportation.

When studying large geographic areas, such as states, researchers can use a single year's worth of ACS data to create population-level estimates. However, the study of smaller groups of the population, such as those employed in arts-related fields, requires additional data for more accurate estimation. Specifically, researchers often use 5-year increments of ACS data to draw conclusions about smaller geographies or slices of the population. Note, the Census Bureau produced 3-year estimates between 2005 and 2013 (resulting in seven files: 2005-2007, 2006-2008, 2007-2009, . . . 2011-2013), which remain available but no additional 3-year estimate files have been created.

Individuals wishing to describe people working in occupations related to the arts or culture should plan to use at least five years' worth of data to generate precise estimates. When selecting data from the U.S. Census Bureau or IPUMS USA, users should select data collected over 60 months, such as 2020-2024. NADAC's Guide to Creating Artist Extracts and Special Tabulations of Artists from the American Community Survey provides information about the occupation codes used to identify artists.

Creatives Rebuild New York (CRNY) launched the "Portrait of New York State Artists" survey in February 2022 to build a portrait of the needs, circumstances, and experiences of artists across New York State. CRNY used data from this survey to conduct advocacy and narrative change work, and to assess whether the funding provided to artists through CRNY's programs helped meet the needs of individual artists in any substantive or transformational ways.

Upon submission of an application to CRNY's Guaranteed Income for Artists or Artist Employment Program, artists were invited to answer additional optional questions about their artistic practice, financial circumstances, well-being, pandemic experience, and attitudes about policy and advocacy matters. A publicly accessible version of the survey was made available for those not interested or eligible to apply for CRNY funding. The survey closed on May 31, 2022.

Overall, 13,377 artists completed the survey.

The Check-In Dataset is the second public-use dataset in the Dunham's Data series, a unique data collection created by Kate Elswit (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London) and Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) to explore questions and problems that make the analysis and visualization of data meaningful for dance history through the case study of choreographer Katherine Dunham.

The Check-In Dataset accounts for the comings and goings of Dunham's nearly 200 dancers, drummers, and singers and discerns who among them were working in the studio and theatre together over the years from 1937 to 1962. As with the Everyday Itinerary Dataset, the first public-use dataset from Dunham's Data, data on check-ins come from scattered sources. Due to information available, it has a greater level of ambiguity as many dates are approximated in order to achieve accurate chronological sequence. By showing who shared time and space together, the Check-In Dataset can be used to trace potential lines of transmission of embodied knowledge within and beyond the Dunham Company.

Dunham's Data: Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry is funded by the United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC AH/R012989/1, 2018-2022) and is part of a larger suite of ongoing digital collaborations by Bench and Elswit, Movement on the Move. The Dunham's Data team also includes digital humanities postdoctoral research assistant Antonio Jiménez-Mavillard and dance history postdoctoral research assistants Takiyah Nur Amin and Tia-Monique Uzor.

For more information about Dunham's Data, please see the Dunham's Data website. Also, visit the Dunham's Data research blog to view the interactive visualizations based on the Dunham's Data.

This study provides cross-sectional data from a nationally representative survey that collected data on public perceptions of artists.

The data were collected in March 2017, August 2019, and April 2022; the development of the survey instrument and results from its pilot test are documented in Novak-Leonard and Skaggs (2017). In each wave, a core set of questions is repeated while additional wave-specific questions are uniquely added on matters germane to arts policy within the United States.

Each survey wave has been administered through the AmeriSpeak Panel, a probability-based panel designed to be representative of the U.S. household population, operated by NORC at the University of Chicago. The survey was offered in both in English and Spanish and fielded through both a web-based survey and phone interviews. The data are weighted using sampling weights provided by AmeriSpeak, accounting for age, gender, U.S. Census geographic divisions, education levels, and race/ethnicity. In 2017, the resulting sample was 1,110 adult respondents (age 18 and older); in 2019, the resulting sample contained 1,002 adult respondents; and, in 2022, 1,033 adult respondents.

The Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) survey collects data on the perspectives and experiences of alumni from arts, design, and adjacent fields. The 2022 SNAAP survey data offer evidence-based insights to help inform the important work being undertaken by postsecondary institutions offering studies and training in arts and design amid shifts and changes affecting higher education.

SNAAP's national, online survey was launched in 2008 to meet the growing need for reliable alumni outcomes data, as articulated by arts training institutions across the country. The survey draws generalizable insights about "artists" with postsecondary degrees (as defined by Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes) in arts, design, and media fields. Alumni of independent arts and design colleges, conservatories, and arts schools and departments within comprehensive colleges and universities are surveyed.

SNAAP's survey was successfully relaunched in 2022 with numerous changes to its design, methodology, and administration. This included a probabilistic sampling frame to ensure a more representative sample; a more inclusive recruitment process to secure a more diverse group of institutions' participation in SNAAP; and a revised survey questionnaire to expand on important substantive areas and improve the respondent's experience completing the questionnaire. The revised questionnaire gave new attention to alumni's "sense of belonging" at their educational institution; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives and careers; and paying for postsecondary arts education.

The Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) is produced through the partnership between the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Built with the BEA's input-output (I-O) accounts, the ACPSA provides detailed statistics that illustrate the impact of arts and cultural production on the United States economy. Specifically, this account provides an assessment of the arts and cultural sector's contributions to gross domestic product (GDP).

For years 1998 to 2023, the ACPSA presents annual statistics about the following items: (1) Output of detailed arts and cultural commodities and the industries producing these commodities; (2) employment and compensation within these industries; (3) arts and cultural value added by industry; and (4) commodity-flow details for arts and cultural production products.

**Please note that due to BEA's 2023 comprehensive updates to the national, industry, and state economic accounts, these statistics supersede all prior ACPSA statistics provided previously and should not be combined with previous years of the ACPSA.**

In the data tables provided, the statistics fall under two broad categories: (1) core arts and cultural production and (2) supporting arts and cultural production. The core category contains the commodities in which the output primarily contributes to arts and culture. Performing arts, museums, design services, and arts education are included in the core category. The supporting category consists of commodities that support the core category through publication, dissemination of the creative process, or other supportive functions. This category contains event promotion, printing, and broadcasting.

The seven national-level data tables provided for each year from 1998 to 2023 include:

• Table 1. Production of Commodities by Industry
• Table 2. Output and Value Added by Industry
• Table 3. Supply and Consumption of Commodities
• Table 4. Employment and Compensation of Employees by Industry
• Table 5. Total ACPSA-related Employment by Industry
• Table 6. Output by ACPSA Commodity
• Table 7. Real Output by Commodity

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) is the Nation's first federally administered, continuous survey on time use in the United States. This multi-year data collection contains information on the amount of time (in minutes) that people spent doing various activities on a given day, including the arts activities, in the years 2003 through 2023.

Data collection for the ATUS began in January 2003. Sample cases for the survey are selected monthly, and interviews are conducted continuously throughout the year. In 2023, approximately 9,000 individuals were interviewed. Estimates are released annually. ATUS sample households are chosen from the households that completed their eighth (final) interview for the Current Population Survey (CPS), the nation's monthly household labor force survey. ATUS sample households are selected to ensure that estimates will be nationally representative. One individual age 15 or over is randomly chosen from each sampled household. This "designated person" is interviewed by telephone once about his or her activities on the day before the interview--the "diary day."

The ATUS Activity Coding Lexicon is a 3-tiered classification system with 17 first-tier categories. Each of the first-tier categories has two additional levels of detail. Respondents' reported activities are assigned 6-digit activity codes based on this classification system.

Additionally, the study provides demographic information--including sex, age, ethnicity, race, education, employment, and children in the household.

IMPORTANT: The 2020 ATUS was greatly affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Data collection was suspended in 2020 from mid-March to mid-May. ATUS data files for 2020 contain all ATUS data collected in 2020--both before and after data collection was suspended. For more information, please visit BLS's ATUS page.

The weighting method was changed for 2020 to account for the suspension of data collection in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents from 2020 will have missing values for the replicate weights on this data file. The Pandemic Replicate weights file for 2019-20 contains 160 replicate final weights for each ATUS final weight created using the 2020 weighting method. Chapter 7 of the ATUS User's Guide provides more information about the 2020 weighting method.

The Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024 research project is privately sponsored and in collaboration with FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource (www.fashionandtextileseducation.com) under the direction of:

Principal Investigator:

Clare S. Culik-Spencer, M.A., B.A., Co-founder of FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK; University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, UK; University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

Assistant Researchers:

Elaine Man, MA, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK.

Lana Shchadey, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK. Royal College of Art, London, UK.

Alex Secilmis, M.A., B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK.

Marnix Steenackers, B.A., FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource, London, UK. University of the Arts London: Central Saint Martins, UK.

The Material Culture: Clothing and Textiles Metadata: Practices and Methods for the Arts and Sciences, Global, 1700-2024 research project was the first public use of FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource metadata. It was also the first dataset of material culture, clothing, and textiles in visual and video format.

This project provided a transparent system for tracing which areas of research could benefit from histories, theories, and cultural studies of design in fashion and textiles. This provided a wider scope of evidences showing potential ramifications for how this topic can be studied in research. This will aid in understanding not only history and design, but the exact connections and uses in the social and behavioral sciences.

The content of this project shows practices and methods to understand material culture of clothing and textiles from 1700 - 2019 from all seven continents. The 14 selected case studies show examples of material culture of clothing and textiles from FATE (c) Fashion And Textiles Education Archive Resource in London, United Kingdom. Items were selected through stratified sampling in order to demonstrate ethnographic diversities across the globe.

For this project the research team manually created contexts and used visualizations in the mediums of digital photographs and top view video demonstrations. These visualizations demonstrate how the material culture of clothing and textiles are worn on a human body to evidence the movement of them.

These data were gathered on behalf of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in partnership with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) and the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). The goal of the survey was to study the representational diversity within art museums through quantitative means. The survey instrument, developed by Ithaka S+R, was administered to directors of AAMD and AAM member art museums. The first cycle of data were collected in 2015 (February-March 2015), the second cycle in 2018 (July-September 2018), and the third cycle in 2022 (February-April 2022). The collected data were sent to researchers at Ithaka S+R, who appended, cleaned and analyzed the data, and presented findings in a public research report.

The survey collected demographic and employment data for over 30,000 museum employees. About 27,000 of these are employed at AAMD museums, and approximately 3,000 are from (non-AAMD) AAM member museums. 332 art museums responded to the survey in 2018 and 136 of them also participated in the survey in 2015. The third cycle gathered data from 328 museums in North America between February and April 2022, encompassing records for over 30,000 individuals.

The 2018 instrument was slightly expanded to capture additional specifics of the composition of art museum employees. For the third cycle, significant enhancements were made to the survey instrument, particularly in expanding the position and race categories, separating categories such as "Finance" and "Human Resources," as well as "Information Technology" and "Web Development," which were combined in the previous survey. Additionally, new positions such as "Librarian," "Public Engagement," and "Diversity/Equity/Inclusion" were included to better track changes in these areas. The data gathered in the third wave of the study offer valuable insights into the evolving demographics of the museum sector and the pandemic's impact on staffing.

The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) is an annual survey of U.S. public libraries. Policymakers and practitioners depend on PLS data to allocate funding and strategically manage libraries. Academics rely on PLS data to conduct original research about public libraries. Data in the PLS come from over 17,000 outlets, and it represents a "gold standard" for national information about public libraries. While the PLS is an invaluable resource for the public library community, other organizations collect data that extends the reach and significance of the PLS.

This dataset extends the PLS using information from the Public Library Association (PLA), the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS), and the U.S. Census Bureau. PLA data comes from Project Outcome, a free toolkit and online resource for public libraries to document the outcomes associated with public library services. Since 2015, Project Outcome has collected more than 390,000 responses to surveys at 2,200+ libraries in the U.S. and Canada describing the outcomes resulting from library services. The standardized surveys used by Project Outcome have enabled libraries to aggregate their outcome data and analyze trends by topic, type, and program. ABOS data comes from a 2023 national, non-representative survey of public libraries regarding their outreach departments, services, and vehicles. Census data is from the American Community Survey and provides demographic information regarding the geographies that public libraries serve.

As part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research curated these data for reuse and mapped them to libraries in the PLS. The result is a combined dataset that documents the impact of library programming and outreach on nationwide communities. To enhance these data, a committee led by the University of Missouri, School of Information Science and Learning Technologies identified supplemental variables (e.g., Census demographic figures) and guided data curation by creating a "data module" specifying curation enhancements.

SMU DataArts hosts the Cultural Data Profile (CDP), an annual online survey collecting detailed financial, programmatic, and demographic information from cultural nonprofits, which they use to apply for funding to multiple grant programs. SMU DataArts also integrates surveys from national arts service organizations into a unified platform, streamlining data collection and providing more reliable, standardized data. Participating organizations, including those in broadcast, media, literary arts, education, museums, performing arts, and advocacy, report detailed information on revenues, expenses, marketing, balance sheets, investments, attendance, programming, staffing, and volunteers. This results in a comprehensive longitudinal dataset essential for research and advocacy, supporting the evidence-based demonstration of the arts' value and impact. SMU DataArts provides data in various formats, from raw datasets for research to custom analyses and reports.

Cultural Data Profile datasets can be requested for the past five completed fiscal years for $750, with discounts for academic use. The available datasets include: the National Dataset (all available data for broad analysis), the National Trend Dataset (for consistent trend comparisons across organizations), and the Most Recent Fiscal Year Dataset (a snapshot of the latest fiscal year). Customization and aggregate data services are available for additional fees. For more details, view the data dictionary here and the Cultural Data Profile questions here. Contact [email protected] for customization or further inquiries.

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study SM is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded leading researchers in the fields of adolescent development and neuroscience to conduct this ambitious project. The ABCD Research Consortium consists of a Coordinating Center, a Data Analysis, Informatics & Resource Center, and 21 research sites across the country, which have invited 11,880 children ages 9-10 to join the study. Researchers will track their biological and behavioral development through adolescence into young adulthood.

Arts measures in ABCD include how can arts experiences be best used to enhance development of each individual? How can arts experience be best used to promote health and address developmental disorders? And also, how can neuroscience research provide a foundation for rational approaches to how we integrate arts into development?

ABCD enables us to track a trajectory of broad measures of cortical area thickness of the brain over time and see whether individuals keep on with the mean, go higher, lower, and so forth. And what factors might affect those trajectories.The data shows the relationship between music engagement and brain and behavioral developmental trajectories in childhood and adolescence, using rich characterization of brain, behavior, demographics, and genetics available in ABCD.

Arts experiences in ABCD are captured largely as part of something called the activities questionnaire, which is a pretty detailed questionnaire given to parents, which includes detailed information about participation in a wide range of activities, which include many different sports, but also performance in the arts, music, dance, drama, visual and crafts. Activities such as active engagement, learning, lessons, playing in bands, creating art (school, outside school, private lessons, and self-study). The data offers insights into effects of arts-related activities on cognitive outcomes like fluid and crystallized intelligence, executive function, working memory-specific measures, risk scores for IQ, and educational attainment.

Watch the recording of NADAC's webinar featuring Dr. Gay Dowling, Director of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Project, and Dr. Iversen, a cognitive neuroscientist. Dr. Dowling provides an overview of the ABCD study, while Dr. Iversen discusses the arts-specific measures within the ABCD data and explains how these measures, combined with comprehensive brain and cognitive assessments, reveal the impact of the arts on brain development.

Additional ABCD resources:

• The Sound Health Network

• The ABSD Data Dictionary

• NIMH Data Archive

• ABCD GitHub

• ABCD Study Infographics

The National Children's Study (NCS), authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000, was a large-scale study to investigate environmental influences on child health and development. The NCS Vanguard (Pilot) Study, launched in 2009, tested methods for the larger Main Study and enrolled approximately 5,000 children across 40 locations by July 2013. The Main Study followed 100,000 children from before birth to age 21. On December 12, 2014, the NIH Director closed the study per advice from the expert review group.

The NCS Archive, created after the study's closure, offers researchers access to over 250,000 data and samples, including nearly 19,000 biological and 5,500 environmental samples from the Vanguard Study. The archive contains study visit data from preconception to 42 months post-birth, neuro-psychosocial and cognitive assessments, physical examinations, study protocols, operation manuals, data collection instruments, and more.

The NCS Archive includes various arts-related variables that were part of the study questionnaires and interviews conducted with participants and covered a range of activities and exposures. Specifically, the study captured data on children's participation in artistic activities, including music, dance, drama, and visual arts. Information was collected on the frequency and type of arts engagement, such as attending classes, participating in performances, or creating art. Examples include:

• DANCE_DAYS: The average number of days per week someone dances with the child.

• THEATER_DAYS: The average number of days per week someone engages in theater, play-acting, or make-believe with the child.

• MUSIC_DAYS: The average number of days per week someone plays musical instruments, sings, or listens to music with the child.

• DRAWPAINT_DAYS: The average number of days per week someone spends drawing or painting with the child.

• ART_EVENT_DAYS: The average number of days per week someone takes the child to arts-related events outside the home.

• DAYS_READ: The number of days in the past week that family members read stories to the child.

• TOTAL_NUMBER_BOOKS: The total number of children's books in the home, including library books.

• FREQ_BOOKS: The average number of days per week someone reads or looks at books with the child.

• READ_STORIES: The number of days per week stories are read to the child.

• TELL_STORIES: The number of days per week stories are told to the child.

The NCS Archive is available in NICHD's Data and Specimen Hub (DASH) for researchers to request access and conduct their own studies. For more information, researchers can consult the National Children's Study Archive: Study Description and Guide or contact NICHD's Data and Specimen Hub at [email protected].

The Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study captures information on the transition of bachelor's degree recipients into the labor force, with a focus on recent graduates, particularly young adults under age 25 and those aged 25-29. The study provides insights into various aspects of graduates' experiences, including their employment, education, and certification status. While the sample size for arts graduates is relatively small, the study offers valuable data for understanding educational and employment experiences, and career trajectories of individuals in arts-related fields.

Access to the available public-use data is provided through DataLab. Restricted-use data are also available under restricted-use license.

Key Variables Related to Arts Education and Employment:

1. B1ARTRCNT: Indicates whether the respondent taught arts or music at the most recent teaching job held within 12 months after completing their bachelor's degree.

2. B1CERTART: Indicates whether the respondent was certified to teach arts or music as of the Baccalaureate and Beyond interview.

3. B1EPRMSBRCNT: Indicates the primary subject taught at the most recent teaching job held within 12 months after completing the bachelor's degree, with a value indicating arts or music.

4. B1HIDGMAJ: Indicates the major or field of study within 12 months after completing the bachelor's degree, with specific categories related to arts, such as design and applied arts.

5. B1OCC231ST: Indicates the respondent's occupation for the first job within 12 months after completing the bachelor's degree, with categories including arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media.

6. B1OCC23RCNT: Indicates the respondent's occupation for the most recent job within 12 months after completing the bachelor's degree, with categories related to arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.

7. B2ARTTCHCRT: Indicates whether the respondent was certified to teach arts or music and whether they taught arts or music at their most recent teaching job within 4 years after completing the bachelor's degree.

8. B2HICMAJ: Indicates the major or field of study within 4 years after completing the bachelor's degree, with categories including visual and performing arts.

9. B2OCC23RCNT: Indicates the respondent's occupation at their most recent employer within 4 years after completing the bachelor's degree, with categories related to arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations.

Additionally, the study includes variables related to the Carnegie Classification of institutions attended by the graduates, as well as detailed information on their field of study or major, particularly in visual and performing arts.

The Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CE) program provides data on expenditures, income, and demographic characteristics of consumers in the United States. Expenditure categories include various arts-related spending categories on admissions for activities such as plays, theater, opera, concerts, as well as movies, parks, and museums. Additionally, spending on reading materials like newspapers, magazines, books, and digital book readers is covered. The survey also captures expenditure data on other arts-related items such as musical instruments, photographic equipment, audio-visual equipment, and items related to toys, games, arts, and crafts.

CE data are primarily used to revise the relative importance of goods and services in the market basket of the Consumer Price Index. The CE is the only Federal household survey to provide information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes. CE data are collected by the Census Bureau for BLS in two surveys: the Interview Survey for major and/or recurring items and the Diary Survey for more minor or frequently purchased items. Here is an overview of the CE program and its methods.

The CE program provides these data in tables, LABSTAT database, news releases, reports, and public use microdata files, including household arts spending, by demographic characteristics.

The Employment Projections (EP) program offers insights into the labor market of the United States, projecting trends for the next decade across approximately 300 detailed industries and 800 occupations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics develops the National Employment Matrix as part of its ongoing Employment Projections program.

Occupational classifications of the National Employment Matrix are based on the structure used by the Occupational Employment Statistics (OEWS) program, which is using the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. Self-employed worker data are sourced from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and are distributed to relevant occupations through a crosswalk mechanism. The industrial structure relies on the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), treating self-employment as a separate industry for analytical purposes. Arts-related occupations encompass various sectors, including motion picture and sound recording industries, broadcasting, performing arts, museums, amusement, publishing, education, design, media, and related fields. This comprehensive overview aids in understanding employment dynamics and trends within the arts and cultural sectors.

The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) provides descriptive data on the educational activities of the U.S. population and offers researchers, educators, and policymakers a variety of statistics on the condition of education in the United States. The NHES surveys cover learning at all ages, from early childhood to school age through adulthood. The most recent data collection in 2012 consisted of two surveys: Parent and Family Involvement in Education and Early Childhood Program Participation.

Parent and Family Involvement in Education (PFI) captures data on parent engagement and school choice for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Parents are surveyed on a range of topics, including assistance with homework, family activities, and involvement in school affairs. Arts-related inquiries within PFI include frequency of arts and crafts activities, attendance at school events such as plays or science fairs, engagement in artistic endeavors, visits to cultural institutions like art galleries or museums, and potential interference of health conditions with participation in extracurricular activities.

The American Community Survey: Public Use Microdata Sample: Artist Extract, 2018-2022 can be downloaded from the IPUMS USA website. The extract captures information on the number of artists, by occupation, demographic group, and other individual characteristics.

To explore social, housing, and economic characteristics within the arts sector, the 2018-2022 ACS 5-year sample can narrowed down to only respondents in arts-related occupations (identified by the variable name: OCC):

• 1300 Architects, Except Naval

• 2600 Artists and Related Workers

• 2630 Designers

• 2700 Actors

• 2710 Producers and Directors

• 2740 Dancers and Choreographers

• 2750 Musicians, Singers, and Related Workers

• 2760 Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other

• 2700 Announcers

• 2850 Writers and Authors

• 2910 Photographers

• 2920 Television, Video, and Motion Picture Camera Operators and Editors

Users can also visit the IPUMS USA website to analyze the 2018-2022 ACS 5-year sample online in the IPUMS SDA system.

About the American Community Survey (ACS): The ACS is an ongoing statistical survey that samples a small percentage of the population every year -- giving communities the information they need to plan investments and services. The 5-year public use microdata sample (PUMS) for 2018-2022 is a subset of the 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey (PRCS) samples. It contains the same sample as the combined PUMS 1-year files for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. The 2018-2022 ACS 5-year PUMS contains five years of data for housing units (HUs) and the population from households and the group quarters (GQ) population. The GQ population, housing units and population from households are all weighted to agree with the ACS counts, which are an average over the five year period. The ACS sample is selected from all counties across the nation and all municipios in Puerto Rico.

The 5-year dataset is a 5-in-100 national random sample of the population, comprising all households and individuals from the 1% American Community Survey (ACS) samples for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, identifiable by year. It includes persons in group quarters and is weighted. The smallest identifiable geographic unit is the PUMA, which contains at least 100,000 persons and does not cross state boundaries. However, the updating of some geography variables has been delayed due to the usage of two different census definitions (2010 and 2020) of PUMA across the five years in the sample. Regarding data quality issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Census Bureau revised its methodology for weighting households in the 2017-2020 5-year sample, resulting in larger coefficients of variation for some key estimates. Users should proceed with caution when using the 2020 1-year ACS PUMS file and should not compare it to other ACS years in the multi-year data samples. Please see ACS and COVID-19: Guidance for Using the PUMS with Experimental Weights for more information.

Additionally, data collection errors occurred in certain years, notably in 2016, 2017, and 2019, affecting specific variables in particular counties. These errors should be considered when analyzing the data. Users should read the FAQ on the multi-year data.

The first wave of the Art Museum Director Survey was launched in early 2020. It examined strategy and leadership issues from the perspective of the directors of art museums across the United States. Respondents were asked about their role as museum directors, their strategic priorities and leadership practices, budgeting and resources allocations, current and expected future staffing, their institutions' public trust and engagement with new and existing audiences, collections care and stewardship, their institutions' fiscal health and financial viability, and organizational and talent management.

Conducted prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (the survey's closure was on March 30th 2020), the data from the first wave of the survey offer a glimpse into pre-pandemic perspectives and priorities of art museums.

Launched in April 2022, the second wave of the Art Museum Director Survey offers insights into the evolving strategies of museums over the past two years, covering governance, leadership, collections, public engagement, staffing, and budgets. It also evaluates shifts in directors' perspectives since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and explores responses to other national and international crises.

Demographic variables include respondents' institutions' admission fees, years in their current position, years in the museum sector, their highest degree earned, the position they held prior to their current position as a museum director, the staff size of the museum, and the type of museum (academic or municipal).

Launched on April 28, 2009, Kickstarter is a Public Benefit Corporation based in Brooklyn, New York. It is a global crowdfunding platform that helps to fund new creative projects and ideas through direct support from individuals (backers) from around the world who pledge money to bring these projects and ideas to life.

Kickstarter supports many different kinds of projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Funding on Kickstarter is based on the all-or-nothing model. Backers who pledge their support towards a particular project won't be charged unless the funding goal has been reached. Successfully funded projects reward their backers with one-of-a-kind experiences, e.g., limited editions, or copies of the creative work being produced.

This study includes three datasets: (1) Kickstarter Project (public-use file), (2) Backer Location file, and (3) Kickstarter Project (restricted-use file). The public-use Kickstarter Project dataset contains detailed information about all successful and unsuccessful Kickstarter projects (N=610,015) from 2009-2023, including the project category and subcategory, project location (city, state (for U.S.-based projects), and country), funding goal in original and U.S. currencies, amount pledged in dollars, and the number of backers for each project. The restricted file adds the project title, 150-character project description, and the URL for the project on the Kickstarter site. The Backer Location dataset includes information about backers' country and state and the total amount pledged for each geographic location.

The Arts Engagement Project is a survey of 4,828 undergraduate students conducted at the University of Michigan (U-M) that asked questions about the impacts, precursors, barriers, frequency, and perceptions of co-curricular arts engagement in college. The study followed the students from their entry into the university through their graduation to create a baseline of understanding about the impacts of arts engagement in college at U-M. The Arts Engagement Project data is intended to provide insights for the design of arts-based experiences in higher education, as well as the impacts of the arts on student learning and engagement.

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is a longitudinal survey that provides comprehensive information about income and assistance program participation of individuals and households in the United States. The survey collects data and measures changes in characteristics like economic well-being, family dynamics, education, assets, health insurance, child care, and food security.

SIPP data tables provide wealth and debt measures at the nation and state levels. National estimates offer detailed wealth and debt statistics for a variety of demographic, social and household characteristics. These measures include information on major contributors to wealth such as home equity and retirement accounts, as well as common types of debt such as vehicle debt, credit card debt and student loans. The state-level data highlight household net worth estimates at the state level broken down by selected asset and debt categories.

Arts and Entertainment industries tracked by SIPP:

• 8561. Performing Arts Companies
• 8562. Spectator Sports
• 8563. Promoters of performing arts, sports, and similar events, agents and managers for artists, athletes, entertainers, and other public figures
• 8564. Independent artists, writers, and performers
• 8570. Museums, art galleries, historical sites, and similar institutions

The SIPP also contains measures of whether one's children take lessons after school (ELESSON), attend religious services or events (ERELIG), or play on a sports team (ESPORT) in the Child Well-being subtopic area.

The data are accompanied by supporting materials such as data dictionaries, an online codebook and an updated users' guide. For more information about SIPP data available through ICPSR, see the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Series.

The U.S. Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions, provides insight into the state of the economy with data for key economic measures every two weeks. The continuous, timely nature of BTOS measures captures the impact of events like natural disasters and economic crises and assists in monitoring recovery efforts.

The BTOS is the successor to the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), a high-frequency survey that measured the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, and other major events like hurricanes, on our nation's small businesses. BTOS increases the scope of the SBPS to include large single-location employer businesses (those with 500 or more employees).

Released biweekly and available by sector, state, and the 25 most populous metropolitan statistical areas, the BTOS offers real-time data to aid in policy and economic decision-making. BTOS data are representative of all single-location employer businesses in the U.S. economy, excluding farms, and include geographic and subsector detail. The sector and subsector commonly used to study arts-related businesses are Sector 71 (Arts and Entertainment) and Subsector 711 (Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries).

The BTOS sample consists of approximately 1.2 million businesses with biweekly data collection. Selected businesses are split into six panels (approximately 200,000 cases per panel) that will be asked to report every 12 weeks for a year.

Cross-sectional data for the 2022 General Social Survey (GSS), along with an updated cumulative file for 1972-2022, is available at the project's data portal, along with the 2022 GSS Documentation and Public-use File Codebook. The GSS Data Explorer has also been updated. The 2022 GSS provides opinion data at a critical time in U.S. history as we move forward from the COVID-19 pandemic and continue to understand changes in post-pandemic society.

Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2022 GSS Arts Module was fielded between July 11th and September 21st, 2022, as a web-only follow-on study to the GSS and included questions about changes in individual's recreational activities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Arts Module's final sample size is 843 individuals (from 2,896 eligible GSS baseline respondents). To identify the individuals in the module, use the "NEASTATUS" variable. Additional information about weights for the module is also provided. Access the 2022 GSS Users Guide here.

The 2022 GSS Arts Module includes 24 measures of respondents' participation in the arts through attendance at live performances, exhibits, movies, and the like, as well as consuming culture through online galleries, reading, or watching a recorded event. Respondents are asked to report about their participation over the past 12 months and to compare this to what they did from March 2020 to March 2021.

The 2022 GSS is the most recent in a series of modules covering similar topics. For example, the 1993 Culture Module included questions on musical preferences, leisure and recreational activities, and attitudes toward art and literature. The 1998 Cultural Module included questions on attendance in arts events, personal engagement in artistic activities, attitudes toward art and literature, and attitudes toward arts funding. The 2002 Cultural Module included questions on musical preferences, attendance at arts events, and personal engagement in artistic activities. In 2002, another module on the "Information Society" included questions on the use of the Internet to obtain information about the arts (e.g., how people use the Web to learn about music, the visual arts, and literature). The 2016 Arts and Culture Module added in new variables covering information regarding social media use, suicide, hope and optimism, arts and culture, racial/ethnic identity, flexibility of work, spouses work and occupation, home cohabitation, and health.

About GSS:

The General Social Survey (GSS) was launched by National Opinion Research Center (NORC) in 1972 as an annual national research project to monitor Americans' shifting attitudes on social issues. NORC conducted the GSS almost every year until 1994, when it became biennial. NORC has also widened the scope of the GSS over the decades. With every survey round, GSS questions changed to reflect emerging trends such as the COVID-19 pandemic, political polarization, and crime.

The Global Jukebox (GJB) is an ever-expanding audio database of traditional folk, indigenous, and popular songs from cultures around the world. It is dedicated to the world's peoples and cultures and to their models (ideals) of beauty and forms of communicating and bonding. The Global Jukebox includes visualization tools to reveal relationships between expressive systems and the pathways of song and movement styles across the globe.

All regions and areas of world culture are represented on the GJB. With over 6000 songs from 1200 cultures, there are many examples for every region, every people. Researchers can discover the rich variety and inventiveness, as well as the unifying similarities, of singing and music making within a cultural or geographic region or people.

Global Jukebox data is open access and is updated and expanded periodically on:

• The project's Github repository.
• D-PLACE, the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment, where it can be viewed alongside other cross-cultural datasets. D-PLACE is an expandable, open-access database that brings together information on the geography, language, culture, and environment of over 1400 human societies. It enables researchers to investigate the extent to which patterns in cultural diversity are shaped by different forces, including history, demographics, migration/diffusion, cultural innovations, and environmental and ecological conditions.

The 2021 Profile of Arts Incubators is a comprehensive survey developed by the Arts Incubation Research (AIR) Lab at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to benchmark the budgets and programs of America's arts incubators. The survey was conducted by the Americans for the Arts during September and October 2021.

The survey collected information about the participating art incubators' programs, financials, and operating procedures. It also focused on the program delivery implications for arts incubators in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as issues of access and equity. Visit the Americans for the Arts website to access a summary of the aggregate national findings from the survey based on 146 survey responses, as well as an interactive map of arts incubators, detailed data tables, infographics, and other resources. Users can also view a photo album of selected incubators and their creative spaces.

The survey responses were collected from arts organizations that (1) have a primary purpose to serve as an arts incubator, or (2) have at least one program/component that serves as an arts incubator for the community it serves, or (3) offers funding that supports the delivery of and/or participation in arts incubator programming (but does not actually provide incubator programming).

The tables report selected forms of arts participation for U.S. states and the District of Columbia. State-level figures are reported for those estimates with coefficients of variation under 30 percent, at 90 percent confidence. The period refers to the 12 months ending February 2020.

The data were derive from the 2020 Arts Basic Survey (ABS), a supplement to the Current Population Survey, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The following state-level tables are included:

• Table 1A. Percent of U.S. adults who work with pottery, ceramics, or jewelry, or who create visual art such as paintings, sculpture, or graphic designs, by state
• Table 1B. Percent of U.S. adults do leatherwork, metalwork, or woodwork, or who weave, crochet, quilt, do needlepoint, knit, or sew, by state
• Table 1C. Percent of U.S. adults who play a musical instrument, by state
• Table 1D. Percent of U.S. adults who perform or practice any singing, by state
• Table 1E. Percent of U.S. adults who create any films or videos, or who take any photographs, as artistic activities, by state
• Table 1F. Percent of U.S. adults who attend live music, theater, or dance events, by state
• Table 1G. Percent of U.S. adults who go to art exhibits, by state
• Table 1H. Percent of U.S. adults who go out to the movies or go to see films, by state
• Table 1I. Percent of U.S. adults who visit buildings, neighborhoods, parks, or monuments for their historical, architectural, or design value, by state
• Table 1J. Percent of U.S. adults who read literature (novels or short stories, poetry, or plays), by state
• Table 1K. Percent of U.S. adults who use a device to watch, listen to, or download any music, theater, dance, or creative writing, or information about these art forms, by state

For information about the 2020 ABS, please visit the 2020 ABS study homepage.

The special tabulations of artists, taken from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey, were prepared by the Bureau of the Census at the request of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). These tables show labor force estimates for detailed artist occupations for the United States as a whole; each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; and the largest 25 metropolitan areas.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide reliable and timely social, economic, housing, and demographic data every year. It provides estimates on a broad range of population, housing unit, and household characteristics for states, counties, cities, school districts, congressional districts, census tracts, block groups, and many other geographic areas. In 2010, the ACS replaced the census long form as the nation's source of social and economic data for population and housing characteristics.