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Supplementary Materials Related to the NEA's 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts

The NEA Office of Research & Analysis is pleased to make available a set of resources to guide scholars and researchers in understanding and interpreting results from the 2008 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). The office is sharing these resources with the public in advance of the survey's full summary report, which will be released in the fall of 2009. This unprecedented step will allow academic, government, nonprofit, and commercial researchers to perform early, independent analyses with the data, thus widening public discourse about the survey results and their implications. Click on the highlighted text to view each of the resources below, available through the NEA website:

  • NEA Research brochure, Arts Participation 2008: Highlights from a National Survey

  • Arts participation trend tables (1982-2008) reporting data for individual arts activities by demographic group, and tables showing adults' self-reported preferences for various reading and listening materials.

  • The 2008 survey instrument

  • A data user's guide, with information on the survey design and the procedures for properly using the raw data file (e.g., choosing weights, performing multi-variable analyses from different modules, computing standard errors, and comparing results with those of prior surveys).

  • The raw data file, housed at Princeton University's Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive.

For further information, please contact the NEA Office of Research & Analysis at (202) 682-5424 or research@arts.gov

 

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