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Related name

• Cohen, Randy [Browse]
• Kushner, Roland J. [Browse]
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Series

ICPSR ; 36984 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Local Arts Index was developed in response to an interest in "scaling-down" the 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

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2018-03-22.

Type of data

Numeric

Geographic coverage

United States

Funding information

• The Kresge Foundation
• The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
• The Paul Allen G. Family Foundation
• The Rhode Island Foundation

Methodology note

Counties within the United States.

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