This portion of our site provides more information about some custom research projects that have been commissioned from Hill Strategies Research, including links to additional information or full reports.
Our clients have included arts organizations, arts associations and partnerships, arts councils, municipalities, and government departments.
This report examines spending on culture by federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada, focusing largely on changes in spending between 1992-93 and 2002-03. The report examines government spending by cultural subsector, by level of government, by province, and in relation to population size.
Based on the 2001 census, this study finds a number of significant characteristics about artists in Ontario, including high levels of education, a high proportion of self-employment, a predominance of women, very low earnings, and strong growth in the number of artists between 1991 and 2001.
This report summarizes the results of our research into the needs, offerings and gaps related to documentary filmmaker training in Canad, based on web research, interviews with documentary filmmakers, funders and broadcasters, participation in two forums on the issue, and a short online survey of training organizations.
This report, commissioned from Hill Strategies Research, was published by the National Endowment for the Arts in July of 2004, leading to significant discussion about the state of reading and writing in North America.
Canada’s Cultural Sector Labour Force provides a profile of the arts, culture and heritage labour force, through geographical, socio-economic and employment characteristics, and earnings and trends, both nationally and on a provincial/territorial basis.
