Vital Signs: Cultural Indicators for Australia - First Edition consultation draft (2010) (Word)
The purpose of this report is to deliver a tool to enable governments, the sector and the community to monitor the achievements of the sector, the role arts and culture play in economic and social agendas, and the vitality and cultural impact of Australian arts and cultural output.

Vital Signs: Cultural Indicators for Australia - First Edition consultation draft (2010) (PDF - 1.6 MB)
The purpose of this report is to deliver a tool to enable governments, the sector and the community to monitor the achievements of the sector, the role arts and culture play in economic and social agendas, and the vitality and cultural impact of Australian arts and cultural output.

Social Impacts of Participation in the Arts and Cultural Activities (File format: PDF, File size: 304Kb)
The project aimed to identify, collate and evaluate existing applied research on the social impacts (benefits and costs) of participation in arts and cultural activity into a searchable database.

Social Impact of Participating in the Arts and Cultural Activities literature database (File format: Zip (XLS), File size: 523Kb)
Information about studies that address the social impact of the arts and cultural activities.

Social and Demographic Characteristics of Cultural Attendees (File format: PDF, File size: 1.8Mb)
This report presents the results of analyses of people attending, and those not attending, selected cultural venues and events.

Cultural Participation by Persons with a Disability and Older Persons, 2003 (File format: HTML)
People with a disability and older people comprise a significant proportion of the Australian population. This report focuses on the cultural participation of these two groups. It uses data collected in the 2003 Australian Bureau of Statistics Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers.

Australia's Cultural Volunteers 2000 (File format: PDF, File size: 239Kb)
Work that people undertake voluntarily makes an important contribution to Australian society. This report focuses on those people who volunteered their time to cultural organisations.