BEA Arts and Culture by State
How much arts and cultural production adds to every state's economy, every year since 2001: performing arts, museums, design, architecture, publishing, film, broadcasting and the industries that support them, with the jobs they provide and what they pay. Use it to compare states' creative economies, to make the economic case for arts and cultural investment, or to see which creative industries carry a state.
- Published by
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Source
- BEA (regional economic accounts)
- Original data
- apps.bea.gov
- Terms of use
- Public domain
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BEA's Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA) statistics are supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The estimates are based on the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
Fields
What each record holds, as the publisher describes it: 11 fields.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
geoid | State FIPS code, DC included |
name | BEA's name for the area |
region | BEA region: 1 New England, 2 Mideast, 3 Great Lakes, 4 Plains, 5 Southeast, 6 Southwest, 7 Rocky Mountain, 8 Far West |
line_code | BEA's line number, the same line in every area and year |
industry | The industry or grouping, as BEA names it |
is_total | True where the line is made of other lines in this table |
year | Calendar year |
value_added | Value added (share of GDP), current dollars |
compensation | Compensation of employees, current dollars |
employment | Jobs, full- and part-time |
codes | BEA's code for each column it published no figure for ({"gdp": "D"}); null when every figure is published |