Arts Data and Statistics: Arts Data Sources

Music Industry Data is a growing repository of historical and current data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, Media Control and many more reporting agencies around the world. This data is presented in Relative Pitch Graphs™ which tell the story of the impact of music on society and cultures.

Use Index Term/Culture and Society, and select Art, Performing Arts, etc. Statisical Insight includes census and population data related to the arts, economic data and arts industry expenditures and forecast data...all coming from a wide variety of sources.

Americans for the Arts: "Our mission is to serve, advance, and lead the network of organizations and individuals who cultivate, promote, sustain, and support the arts in America. The group connects leaders from the arts, communities, and business, together to advocate for artists and arts communities. See their "Research" page for data and statistical summaries.

Download various statistics and cultural impact studies, from Americans for the Arts

CPANDA is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. Founded in 2001, it is a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. The core mission of the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) is to acquire, archive, document and preserve high quality data sets on key topics in arts and cultural policy, and make them available in a user-friendly format to scholars, journalists, policy makers, artists, cultural organizations, and the public.

A repository and resource for the curation of social and behavioral sciences data, ICPSR is a global leader in data stewardship and providing rich data resources and responsive educational opportunities for present and future generations. Past data studies and reports in the arts can be located here.

"Pain-free introductions to arts-related datasets through summary statistics, tables, visualizations, and links to other tools and resources." Website.

List, sorted chronologically, of data rich publications analyzing various arts sectors and funding variables.

re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions.

"NEFA’s mission is to build connections among artists, arts organizations, and funders, powering the arts to energize communities in New England, the nation, and the world." See NEFA's annual reports and creative economy reports.

A 2017 comprehensive arts data analysis, from New England Foundation for the Arts.