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Notes The information regarding the Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities was taken from the
Chapter 23 on Culture of the Japan Statistical Yearbook 2011.
The main sources of data are "Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities" by the Statistics
Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "National Time Use Survey" by the
Broadcasting Culture Research Institute of Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting
Corporation), and "White Paper on Leisure" by Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic
Development.
There are two major surveys on time-use in Japan. One is the Survey on Time Use and
Leisure Activities (by the Statistic Bureau), and the other is NHK's Time Use Survey (by NHK
- Japan Broadcasting Corporation). The survey of the Statistic Bureau is a large-scale sample
survey which offers detailed data by region and personal attributes, while the survey of NHK
is based on a smaller sample, but offers longer time series data as well as data on secondary
activity.
URL http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/nenkan/index.htm
Survey of Public Participation in the Arts 2008 (United States, 2008)
Year 2009
Commissioned by National Endowment for the Arts
Author/s United States Census Bureau.
Methodology In the 2008 SPPA, a total of 18,444 responses were obtained. Rather than attempt to
interview all adults in the household (as in 2002), the 2008 SPPA randomly sampled adults
and asked these respondents for information about themselves and, if applicable, for
information about their spouses or partners. Interviewers collected 12,518 individual
responses from adults 18 and older and 5,926 spouse/partner responses through this survey
method. Each survey respondent was asked to answer the core arts audience questions
along with two of the four other survey modules. Demographic data including gender, income,
educational level, age, and race/ethnicity were used in weighting the survey data so that the
results match characteristics of the total U.S. adult population. (These weightings were
determined by the U.S. Census Bureau).
Objectives The purpose of this report is to track adults’ reported levels of arts participation and
Cultural domains /
Other issues
engagement.
The survey was divided into a series of modules examining the following domains:
� Attending arts events;
� Experiencing recorded or broadcasted live performances;
� Exploring arts through the Internet;
� Personally performing or creating art; and
� Taking arts-related classes.
For each of these types of arts participation, various art forms are represented in the survey
(theatre, dance, etc.)
The survey also explores the relationship between arts participation and the following factors:
� Age;
� Race/ethnicity;
� Arts learning;
� Media and technology; and
� Arts creation and performance.
Report chapters are organized by type of arts participation:
� Attendance — Chapter 3.
� Media participation — Chapter 4.
� Arts performance, creation, and learning —Chapter 5.
� Music and reading preferences — Chapter 6.
� Geographic differences in arts participation —Chapter 7.
Chapter 8 provides one page summaries of the SPPA results for jazz, classical music, opera,
musicals, non-musical plays, ballet, other dance, Latin music, and art museum or gallery
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