Arts indicators / Well-being
Volume 15 No 8 / January 25, 201725 January 2017
In this issue: Four reports that attempt to examine the overall health of the arts and culture in different countries, including culture-specific indicators from the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and broad arts indexes from the U.S. and England.
Resources
Arts Index England 2007–2014
Arts Research MonitorThis report attempts to provide a “health check” for the arts in England. Between 2007/08 and 2013/14, the overall arts index increased from 99 to 111. Most of the increase in the index occurred between 2007 and 2011.The report highlights… View this resource
NCAR Arts Vibrancy Index II (2016)
Arts Research MonitorArguing that “creativity is a desirable and necessary element for a thriving community”, this American report attempts to identify cities with particularly strong artistic vibrancy among 937 metropolitan areas in the U.S.A. Arts vibrancy,… View this resource
National Arts Index 2016
Arts Research MonitorThe 2016 report of the National Arts Index, based largely on data from 2013, highlights the “post-recession recovery” of the arts using 81 equally-weighted national indicators across four key dimensions: financial flows; capacity; arts pa… View this resource
Canadian Index of Wellbeing (2016)
Arts Research MonitorThe Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) looks beyond the key national economic indicator (Gross Domestic Product, or GDP) to attempt to measure “those areas of our lives that we care about the most, like education, health, the environment, and th… View this resource
