Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002
The Performing Arts Research Coalition is a collaborative project that seeks to improve the way performing arts organizations gather information. The process is being developed in ten cities and involves four types of data collection: administrative data, audience surveys, subscriber surveys, and household surveys.
PARC is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts (http://www.pewtrusts.org) and is a partnership among five national service organizations: American Symphony Orchestra League (http://www.symphony.org), Association of Performing Arts Presenters (http://www.artspresenters.org), Dance/USA (http://www.danceusa.org), OPERA America (http://www.operaamerica.org), and Theatre Communications Group (http://www.tcg.org). The Urban Institute (http://www.urban.org) is the project's research partner.
For more information and the full reports for each of the ten cities, see the PARC web site at http://www.operaamerica.org/parc/.
A press release is available on the web site of The Pew Charitable Trusts
for the first 5 data sets:
A Five-City Survey Conducted by the Performing Arts Research Coalition (PARC) Finds Broad Support for the Performing Arts (http://www.pewtrusts.org/ideas/ideas_item.cfm?content_item_id=1517&content_type_id=7).
The data from the study is archived at:
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Alaska Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Austin Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Boston Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Cincinnati Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Denver Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Pittsburgh Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Sarasota Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Seattle Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Twin Cities Household Survey
- Performing Arts Research Coalition 2002: Washington D.C. Household Survey
The final reports are also available at:
- The Value of the Performing Arts in Five Communities: A Comparison of 2002 Household Survey Data
- The Value of the Performing Arts in Five Communities 2: a comparison of 2002 Household Survey Data 2
- Alaska: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Austin: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Boston: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Cincinnati: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Denver: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Minneapolis-St. Paul: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report
- Pittsburgh: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Sarasota: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report
- Seattle: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report 2002
- Washington, D.C.: Performing Arts Research Coalition Community Report