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|Author||Hill Strategies , R.,
|Title||Social Effects of the Arts: Exploratory Statistical Evidence.|
Hill Strategies Research (2008, March). Social Effects of the Arts: Exploratory Statistical Evidence. Statistical Insights on the Arts, 6 (4).
|Keywords||Social impacts; Cultural participation; Statistics
|Link to article|| https://hillstrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/1970/01/Social_effects_culture.pdf
|Abstract||This exploratory report examines the relationship between four cultural activities (reading books, attending live performances, visiting art galleries, and attending movie theatres) and various social effects. It also conducts a brief literature review of the subject.
|Metodology||Cross tabulations with social effects were carried out for each of the cultural activities. The data were drawn from Canada’s General Social Survey of 2005, which had a sample size of about 20,000. Unfortunately, the survey design was split so that only half of the respondents answered questions about cultural activities, and the other half answered questions about social networking and trust. Therefore, it was not possible to cross-tabulate the cultural responses with these factors. However, the factors that were cross-tabulated included volunteering, donating, neighbourhood connections, sense of belonging, enjoyment of social activities, economic participation, and quality of life.
|Technique||Questionnaire; Statistical analysis; Cross-tabulation|