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Arts Research Monitor

This website from Hill Strategies Research provides synopses of qualitative and quantitative research findings in the arts and culture.
Hill Strategies Research is a Canadian company that aims to provide insightful evidence about the arts.

ArtsResearchMonitor.com

National Endowment for the Arts

Research Reports

Statistical Indexes & Databases

Statista
Statista is a statistics portal that provides data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, consumer goods, and much more.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications from the US government, state governments, international organizations, and professional associations. Please consult this guide for instructions on how to access materials that are not already digitized.
ProQuest Statistical DataSets
This is a powerful interdisciplinary database that assembles statistical information from government and private sources in one single interface. It aggregates over 590 licensed and public domain datasets provided by over 50 sources and makes 14 billion data points accessible. Researchers are able to manipulate datasets, make comparisons, chart trends over time and spatially represent data without having to use additional software programs.

Getting Started

These comprehensive sources are a great place to start your research.

Statistical Abstract of the United States – Arts, Recreation, & Travel. This section presents data on the arts, entertainment, and recreation economic sector of the economy, and personal recreational activities, the arts and humanities, and domestic and foreign travel.

Historical Statistics of the United States Millennium Edition - Arts and Humanities, Series Dh366-391. Includes tables on attendance, revenues and expenses, grants, and motion pictures.

ProQuest Statistical Insight is an index to statistical publications and tables. It includes government, private, and international sources. Particularly useful resource for access to trade publications. Many items are available in the government documents microfiche collection.

Sourcebook of Arts Statistics (1989, 1992 addendum) is a general reference book on arts statistics. It is outdated, but may still be used to identify relevant agencies and producers of information.