Local Arts Index (LAI), United States, 2009-2015 / Roland J. Kushner, Randy Cohen.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Kushner, Roland J. Muhlenberg College.

Cohen, Randy.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 36984.

ICPSR ; 36984

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

2018-03-02.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: Intranet.

data file

Summary:

The Local Arts Index was developed in response to an interest in "scaling-down" the (http://www.artsindexusa.org/2016-national-arts-index)National Arts Index (NAI) to the community level and to the growing demand for comparative information on arts at the community level. The LAI was developed in partnership with arts leadership organizations in over 100 communities and is comprised of a variety of indicators to understand who we are as a community and how that manifests itself through cultural activities and participation. Indicators are a systematic data collection initiative that is conducted regularly over time. The LAI compresses many arts indicators into one number that is calculated the same way and at regular time intervals, making it easy to compare performance between time periods. The LAI collected county level data such as nonprofit arts revenue and expenditures, creative businesses and nonprofit arts organizations per 100,000 residents, arts share of businesses, employees, establishments, and payroll, estimated expenditures on arts equipment, number of visual and performing arts degrees, and adult population attending arts and culture activities. Demographic information includes median measures of age, household income, and year housing was built, as well as population density, and population share that was over 65, non-English speakers, and non-white.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36984.v1

Contents:

Local Arts Index (LAI), 2009-2015 [United States]

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2018-06-14.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.