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Title: Creative Communities Artist Data User Guide

Citation Type: Miscellaneous

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: Welcome to the LINC Artist Data User Guide to the Census data on artists, created for Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC). This manual is for use with the data sets we have provided you on your state and metropolitan region. We have constructed the tables to make your use of them as easy and transparent as possible. We are very happy to talk with you about them and help you understand any issues you have with the data and its meaning. Please feel free to contact us. You may wonder whether 2000 Census data is good enough for what you most want to know. This data is the only evidence we have that captures artists adequately by artistic discipline, industry, income, employment status, recent migration patterns, and a large number of socioeconomic characteristics (including age, race, gender, immigrant status, education, and homeowner status), at metro and large city as well as state geographical levels. These data were first made available in the fall of 2003—the next decennial Census data will not be available until 2013. The American Community Survey now offers two years (2005 and 2006) of comparable data from a 1% sample, but this is generally too small to use reliably for studying artists at the state and local level, even when pooled across years. Although the numbers and features of artists may have changed from 2000, these data allow you to compare metro and state artists in your region with those in other places, a comparison that is not apt to have changed dramatically over the past seven years.

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.572.851&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Markusen, Ann; Schrock, Greg

Publisher: Leveraging Investments in Creativity

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Land Use/Urban Organization, Other

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