Which Data? A Review of Data Providers in the Arts

WHICH DATAWEBINAR 2: A Review of Arts and Culture Data Providers

May 17th, 2016

1. WHY Data

2. WHICH DATA

3. PRESENTING DATA

March 29th, 2016

May 17th, 2016

June 21st, 2016

Creative Economy Data Providers

CONSULTANT & UNIVERSITY

R E P O R T S

SPECIFIC vs BROADWhat type of industries are included?

SPECIFICSPECIFIC

BROAD

SPECIFIC vs BROADNonprofit focus or for profit focus?

SPECIFICSPECIFIC

BROAD

5 PROVIDERS OF DATA

PROVIDER 1 CDP/ DATA ARTS

Cultural Data Project is now Data ArtsData about the nonprofit arts sector

PROVIDER 2 WESTAF/ CVSUITE

Creative Vitality Suite by WESTAF Data about the nonprofit and for-profit creative economy

PROVIDER 3 AFTA/ AEP

Arts and Economic Prosperity by AFTAData about nonprofit arts activities and

how they impact the economy

PROVIDER 4 NEA’s ACPSA Study/ BEA

The NEA’s Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account from Bureau of Economic Analysis

A deeper dive into creative economy data

PROVIDER 5 CONSULTANT & UNIVERSITY

Consultant and University-BasedResearch Center Reports

Custom fitting of data to a defined community

INDICES AVAILABLE

Creative Vitality Indexby WESTAF

Arts Indexby AFTA

SOURCES OF DATA

WHERE THE DATA COME FROM

Data Arts uses the “census” approach

WHERE THE DATA COME FROM

U.S. Department of Commerce-Bureau of Economic Analysis-U.S.Census Bureau

U.S. Department of Labor-Bureau of Labor Statistics-Employment and Training Administration (ETA)

U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics

CVSuite uses data from three primary sources

WHERE THE DATA COME FROM

AEP 4, collected data from 182 participating organizations. These data were then imputed using modeling to the entire country.

WHERE THE DATA COME FROM

NEA’s ACPSA data is derived from the same surveys that support other BEA information.

Data from the Arts and Cultural production satellite come from Bureau of Economic Analysis account was developed in seven steps: (1) identifying the arts and cultural production commodities(2) identifying the industries(3) identifying the arts and cultural portions(4) estimating output(5) estimating value added(6) estimating employment and compensation(7) estimating total and indirect output and employment

Bureau of Economic Analysis

Satellite Accounts

Core Economic Accounts

• Arts & Culture

• Travel and Tourism

• Healthcare

• Transportation

• Innovation

• National

• International

• Regional

• Industry

WHERE THE DATA COME FROM

CONSULTANT & UNIVERSITY

R E P O R T S

Private Consultants act as repackagers of existing data

METHODS FOR MODELING

METHODS MODELING DATA/ SUPPRESSIONS

Missing values are computed based on available data

+ + =

METHODS EXTRAPOLATING DATA

Therefore all cities with 20,000 people have 567 creative jobs.

INDICES, TOOLS AND REPORTS

WHAT IS AN INDEX?

In economics, an index is a statistical measure of changes in a representative group of individual data points.

EXAMPLESDow Jones Industrial Average & Standard & Poor’s 500

WHAT IS AN INDEX?

INDICES CREATIVE VITALITY INDEX

Divided by Population

INDICES AFTA’S: LOCAL ARTS INDEX

The Local Arts Index measures four creative dimensions which include many different indicators.

WHAT DATA? TIPS FOR THE CONSUMER

+ Robustness of the data source

+ Credibility of the modeling

+ Timeliness of the data

+ Ability to “play with the data”

Questions and Answers

Upcoming WebinarsPresenting Data - June 21

Susan Gillespiesusan.gillespie@westaf.org

303 629 1166

cvsuite.org