About

Mission

The National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public.

Affiliations

NADAC is one of several topical archives hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the largest social science data archive in the world and part of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. NADAC is owned by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Because of NEA's commitment, users obtain data from NADAC at no charge.

The NEA agreement permitted the transfer to NADAC of datasets distributed by the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA), a collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies. Datasets from CPANDA will be posted to NADAC on an ongoing basis. If a dataset previously available through CPANDA is not on the NADAC website, check the CPANDA website or send email to icpsr-nadac@umich.edu

Data User Services

NADAC provides the following services to assist data users:

• Identification of arts and culture data on specific subject terms
• Online analysis and customized subsetting of selected datasets using the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) statistical software written by staff at the University of California-Berkeley.
• Assistance with retrieval and use of data files from NADAC
• Bibliographic citations to publications based on research data in NADAC
• A sampler of research articles (Arts Research Quarterly) on the arts ecosystem and on the arts' value and impact for individuals and communities, based on data housed at NADAC and elsewhere
• Information on understanding and using research data

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