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Encuesta Nacional de Prácticas y Consumos Culturales (Mexico, 2010)
Year 2010
Commissioned by CONACULTA – Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes
Author/s
Methodology Face-to-face survey with adults aged 15 or over living in private households in 27
states of the country in December 2009.
Sample size: 32,000
Objectives The survey’s main objectives are to:
� provide reliable and updated information on issues like visiting cultural sites,
reading, exposure to media and audiovisual contents, cultural infrastructures
and time use patterns
� have a better understanding of Mexican citizens’ opinion on CONACULTA,
the cultural infrastructures available in the country and other cultural
institutions.
� establish the difference in terms of cultural participation, consumption and
Cultural domains /
Other issues
perception among the different regions of Mexico.
The main sectors for which data are gathered in the survey are
� Cultural sites: museums, galleries and archives, libraries, bookshops,
theatres, music, dance, cinema, plastic arts, visual arts, intangible heritage,
gastronomy
� Reading: Books, Newspapers and Magazines, Comics
� Practice of arts
� Cultural tourism
� Possession of ‘cultural devices’
� Media and Audiovisual contents: Radio, TV, Recorded Music, Computers,
Internet
For each domain, the data gathered are used to provide information about:
� frequency of engagement
� socio-demographic factors: age, gender, socio-economic group, level of
education accomplished, cultural equipment at home, place of residence
� Availability and uses of free time
� Perceptions and values related to cultural activities
� Numbers engaged in studying the relevant discipline
Notes The survey was run during two weeks from 24 July 2010.
It stresses the relationship between cultural participation and education.
URL http://sic.conaculta.gob.mx/publicaciones_sic.php
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