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Cultural Experience Survey 2002 (New Zealand, 2002)
Year 2002
Commissioned by Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Author/s Statistics New Zealand
Methodology It asked people aged 15 and over whether they had experienced a range of activities
during a set reference period – 12 months for goods and services experienced
relatively infrequently, and four weeks for activities experienced on a more regular
basis.
Objectives To provide a snapshot of New Zealanders’ engagement with cultural activities as
diverse as listening to popular music, visiting museums and art galleries, visiting
Cultural domains /
Other issues
marae (Maori sacred meeting places) and buying original art works and craft objects.
The types of cultural activities considered were:
Movies: Attendance at the movies.
Theatre: Attending theatrical performances such as drama, mime or play.
Classical performance: Attending classical or symphonic music performances.
Popular music: Attending pop, rock, jazz, blues, or country and western, including
free concerts and pub performances and music festivals.
Visual arts: Purchasing art work or handmade crafts.
Marae: Attendance at a marae.
Taonga: Attendance at a display or exhibition of Mäori ancestral taonga.
Wähi taonga: Visits to places of historical importance to Mäori.
Mätauranga Mäori: Learning about Mäori customs, practices, history or beliefs.
The variables used to explain whether a cultural activity was experienced were:
Sex, Age, Ethnicity, Highest Educational Qualification, Personal Income, Labour
Force Status, Location.
Notes The Cultural Experiences Survey (CES) was conducted in the first quarter of 2002.
People were also asked how often they experienced these activities, whether they
had encountered any barriers in doing so, how interested they were in New Zealand
content and whether they had experienced the activities by any other means, such as
radio, television or the Internet.
URL http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/time_use/measu
re-of-culture.aspx
General Social Survey 2003 (China, 2003)
Year 2011
Commissioned by
Author/s Survey Research Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Department of Sociology, Renmin University of China
Methodology The 2003 CGSS covers urban areas only and face-to-face interviews took place with
5,900 urban respondents. The interviews were conducted in 559 neighborhood
committees and in 5,894 households.
Objectives The CGSS 2003 aims to collect quantitative data about:
� measures of social structure, its stability and change;
� measures of quality of life, objective and subjective; and
� measures of underlying mechanisms linking social structure and quality of
life.
Cultural domains / In addition to respondents’ personal and household basic characteristics, the 2003
Other issues CGSS also included the scholarly theme of social stratification, occupational mobility,
and social networks.
For the scope of this research we focus on the questions of community participation
and civic engagement.
Notes The 2003 CGSS is the first of a five-year plan of the project (2003-2007).
URL http://www.ust.hk/~websosc/survey/GSS2003e0.html
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