Sep
28
Now that you have high quality economic data to measure your creative economy, you’ll want to present that data in a format that can be easily understood. There are many tools available online to help you work with your data, but it can be difficult to decide which ones to...
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Sep
11
When taking on the--sometimes difficult--task of quantifying an area’s creative economy, you will want access to every tool at your disposal. One useful tool is location quotient (LQ) data. The location quotient can be used to reveal the level of concentration a particular occupation or industry has in a specified...
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Sep
04
The Creative Vitality™ Suite is a powerful tool, containing data that has many potential uses. The online tool offers a few different ways to download data. #1 Regional Snapshot PDF report The one page, regional snapshot PDF report provides an overview of an area's occupations, industries, grants and nonprofits. The...
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Aug
18
In August 2015, the CVSuite™ will begin to highlight Industry Earnings data rather than Industry Sales data. Although Industry Sales data will remain available on the site, Industry Earnings data will provide CVSuite™ users with a more comprehensive measure of economic impact in a defined geographic area. In order to...
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Jun
22
Ellensburg, Washington, is a small community located approximately 100 miles east of Seattle. Seeking to increase its annual budget of $8,000, the Ellensburg Arts Commission approached its city council in 2012. Before saying “no,” the city council requested more information on how increasing the arts commission’s budget would benefit the...
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May
28
Not many people would be surprised that the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) general category of arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations contains the highest concentration of self-employed workers nationwide.¹ Data show that, on average, nationally, self-employed individuals and freelance workers (also known as the “extended proprietor” class of...
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May
11
*Eastern Counties are: Jones, Lenoir, Greene, Wayne, Wilson, Edgecombe & Pitt Local and state arts agencies are aware of the types of artists and creative industries unique to their region. Often these creative expressions are rooted in the authentic cultural heritage of a locale. The challenge the agencies face is...
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Apr
21
The Creative Vitality™ Suite is a powerful tool, containing data that has many potential uses. The online tool offers the one page, regional snapshot PDF report. Many CVSuite™ users download data for analysis and then work with design firms in their region to generate impressive reports. Following are examples of...
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Mar
30
Sound like good news? Diving into a creative economy research report from the CVSuite™ can be like opening a Christmas present. Surprise: Media jobs have grown 5% from the previous year, and three-year trends show steady upward growth! Hooray: Job growth in creative industries is on the rise and wages...
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Feb
17
Most in the arts field understand the ever-increasing importance of data for effective advancement of the arts. Newspapers and data-driven blogs such as Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight routinely reinforce that the age of “big data” is upon us, even in the arts. Reports of clairvoyant data predicting elections, crowd-sourced data lowering...
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