One Nation/One Project: Relationships Between Arts Participation, Social Cohesion, and Wellbeing, United States, 2022-2025 (ICPSR 39762)
Version Date: Apr 16, 2026 View help for published
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Jill K. Sonke, University of Florida
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39762.v1
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One Nation/One Project (ONOP) is a national arts and public health initiative with a focus on the arts as a way to rebuild the social fabrics and wellbeing of communities in the United States following the pandemic. The Theory of Change (ToC) survey dataset consists of data representing over 2,000 respondents from the 18 ONOP cities, while the Arts Participation (AP) survey data represents more than 9,000 respondents from the general US population.
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Cities
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Guided by the research question, "How can arts participation in communities influence social cohesion and wellbeing?" a complex mixed methods study was undertaken to measure associations between arts participation, social cohesion, and wellbeing.
The Arts Participation dataset contains responses from the US population as a whole.
The Theory of Change dataset contains only responses from the 18 sites that participated in the survey. Those sites are:
- Honolulu, HI
- The island of Hawai'i
- Chicago, IL
- IMAN Chicago
- The Bronx
- Edinburgh, TX
- Gainesville, FL
- Harlan County, KY
- Kansas City, MO
- Oakland, CA
- Phillips County, AR
- Providence, RI
- Rhinelander, WI
- Seattle, WA
- Tucson, AZ
- Utica, MS
- Washington, D.C.
- Winston-Salem, NC
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ToC Survey- Purposive convenience sample incorporating voluntary, snowball, and intercept sampling (statistical significance=70 surveys/city per timepoint).
AP Survey- Convenience sample incorporating voluntary sampling and snowballing.
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Primary variables include arts participation, social cohesion, wellbeing, and a range of demographics.
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The World Health Organization-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5)
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2026-04-16
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2026-04-16 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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