On March 29th, CVSuite kicked off it’s three part webinar series, Art of Data. The second in the series, Which Data? aired on May 17th and featured Anthony Radich of WESTAF reviewing creative economy data sources, with EMSI economist Brian Points. Key takeaways for the webinar are: • Which data are available • How data are collected • Ways providers model data • Frequency and age of data • Benefits and limitations Visit cvsuite.org for more information.

1. WHICH DATA
WEBINAR 2: A Review of Arts
and Culture Data Providers
May 17th, 2016

2. 1. WHY Data
2. WHICH DATA
3. PRESENTING DATA
March 29th, 2016
May 17th, 2016
June 21st, 2016

3. Creative Economy
Data Providers
CONSULTANT &
UNIVERSITY
R E P O R T S

4. SPECIFIC vs BROAD
What type of industries are included?
SPECIFIC
SPECIFIC
BROAD

5. SPECIFIC vs BROAD
Nonprofit focus or for profit focus?
SPECIFIC
SPECIFIC
BROAD

6. 5 PROVIDERS OF DATA

7. PROVIDER 1 CDP/ DATA ARTS
Cultural Data Project is now Data Arts
Data about the nonprofit arts sector

8. PROVIDER 2 WESTAF/ CVSUITE
Creative Vitality Suite by WESTAF
Data about the nonprofit and for-profit creative economy

9. PROVIDER 3 AFTA/ AEP
Arts and Economic Prosperity by AFTA
Data about nonprofit arts activities and
how they impact the economy

10. 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

11. PROVIDER 5 CONSULTANT & UNIVERSITY
Consultant and University-Based
Research Center Reports
Custom fitting of data to a defined community

12. INDICES AVAILABLE
Creative Vitality Index
by WESTAF
Arts Index
by AFTA

13. SOURCES OF DATA

14. WHERE THE DATA COME FROM
Data Arts uses the
“census” approach

15. 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

16. WHERE THE DATA COME FROM
AEP 4, collected data
from 182 participating
organizations. These
data were then imputed
using modeling to the
entire country.

17. WHERE THE DATA COME FROM
NEA’s ACPSA data
is derived from the
same surveys that
support other BEA
information.
Bureau of
Economic Analysis
Satellite
Accounts
Core Economic
Accounts
• Arts & Culture
• Travel and Tourism
• Healthcare
• Transportation
• Innovation
• National
• International
• Regional
• Industry

18. WHERE THE DATA COME FROM
CONSULTANT &
UNIVERSITY
R E P O R T S
Private Consultants
act as repackagers
of existing data

19. METHODS FOR MODELING

20. METHODS MODELING DATA/ SUPPRESSIONS
Missing values
are computed
based on
available data
+ + =

21. METHODS EXTRAPOLATING DATA
Therefore all cities with 20,000
people have 567 creative jobs.

22. INDICES, TOOLS AND REPORTS

23. WHAT IS AN INDEX?
In economics, an index is a statistical
measure of changes in a representative
group of individual data points.
EXAMPLES
Dow Jones Industrial Average & Standard & Poor’s 500

24. WHAT IS AN INDEX?

25. INDICES CREATIVE VITALITY INDEX
Divided by Population

26. INDICES AFTA’S: LOCAL ARTS INDEX
The Local Arts Index measures four creative dimensions
which include many different indicators.

27. 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”

28. Questions and
Answers
Upcoming Webinars
Presenting Data - June 21

29. Susan Gillespie
susan.gillespie@westaf.org
303 629 1166
cvsuite.org