data sets

Community Indicators Survey [1999 - 2002]

The Community Indicators Project was undertaken by the Knight Foundation (http://www.knightfdn.org) to document the social health of the 26 communities in which the Knight brothers published newspapers. Local area surveys were conducted in each of the 26 communities in both 1999 and 2002. In 2002, a number of the local area surveys were supplemented with regional surveys or surveys of a neighboring city. National surveys were also conducted in order to provide comparative benchmark measures. The surveys measured citizens' civic engagement and attitudes concerning seven topic areas: education, arts and culture, children and social welfare, community development, homelessness, literacy, and citizenship. Questions relating specifically to arts and culture include frequency of attendance at arts events or museums and satisfaction with arts and cultural opportunities. The study was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates (http://www.psra.com) and funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

For more information about the Community Indicators Project, see the Knight Foundation web site at: http://www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=indicators/index.asp

The data from the study are archived at: