DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38524.v1
title: Arts Basic Survey State-Level Data Tables, United States, 2020
title: Version 1

description: The tables report selected forms of arts participation for U.S. states and the District of Columbia. State-level figures are reported for those estimates with coefficients of variation under 30 percent, at 90 percent confidence. The period refers to the 12 months ending February 2020.
The data were derive from the 2020 Arts Basic Survey (ABS), a supplement to the Current Population Survey, and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The following state-level tables are included:

<b>Table 1A.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who work with pottery, ceramics, or jewelry, or who create visual art such as paintings, sculpture, or graphic designs, by state
<b>Table 1B.</b> Percent of U.S. adults do leatherwork, metalwork, or woodwork, or who weave, crochet, quilt, do needlepoint, knit, or sew, by state
<b>Table 1C.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who play a musical instrument, by state
<b>Table 1D.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who perform or practice any singing, by state
<b>Table 1E.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who create any films or videos, or who take any photographs, as artistic activities, by state
<b>Table 1F.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who attend live music, theater, or dance events, by state
<b>Table 1G.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who go to art exhibits, by state
<b>Table 1H.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who go out to the movies or go to see films, by state
<b>Table 1I.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who visit buildings, neighborhoods, parks, or monuments for their historical, architectural, or design value, by state
<b>Table 1J.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who read literature (novels or short stories, poetry, or plays), by state
<b>Table 1K.</b> Percent of U.S. adults who use a device to watch, listen to, or download any music, theater, dance, or creative writing, or information about these art forms, by state

For information about the 2020 ABS, please visit the 2020 ABS study homepage.
description: The purpose of the Arts Basic Survey (ABS) supplement was to examine American adults' participation in various artistic activities.
description: The February 2020 Arts Benchmarking Survey questions were asked of the CPS respondent and spouse as well as another randomly selected household member aged 18 or older and his/her spouse. About half of the sampled households were asked the supplement questions. Interview numbers 2, 3, 6, and 7 were asked the supplement questions. If the selected person had a spouse or partner then questions were also asked of the spouse/partner. The supplement contained questions about the sampled member's participation in various artistic activities from February 2019 through February 2020. Questions were asked about the use of pottery, ceramics, jewelry, leatherwork, metalwork and woodwork. They were also asked about weaving, crocheting, needlepoint, knitting, sewing, and whether they played a musical instrument. Questions also included doing any acting, singing or dance. Supplement interviews were conducted during the period of February 16-23, 2020.
description: The current CPS sample is selected based on 2010 census information. The first stage of the 2010 sample design created 1,987 geographic areas called primary sampling units (PSUs) in the entire United States. These PSUs were grouped into strata within each state. Some of these PSUs formed strata by themselves and were in sample with certainty, which is referred to as self-representing. Of the remaining nonself-representing PSUs, one PSU was selected from each stratum with the probability of selection proportional to the population of the PSU. A total of 852 PSUs were selected for sampling. The second stage of the sample design selected housing units within these PSUs.
Approximately 72,000 housing units are assigned for interview each month, of which about 60,000 are occupied and thus eligible for interview. The remainder are units found to be destroyed, vacant, converted to nonresidential use, containing persons whose usual place of residence is elsewhere, or ineligible for other reasons. Of the 60,000 occupied housing units, approximately 7 percent are not interviewed in a given month due to temporary absence (vacation, etc.), the residents are not found at home after repeated attempts, inability of persons contacted to respond, unavailability for other reasons, and refusals to cooperate. The interviewed households contain approximately 108,000 persons 15 years old and over, approximately 27,000 children 0-14 years old, and about 450 Armed Forces members living with civilians either on or off base within these households.
The February 2020 Arts Benchmarking Survey questions were asked of the CPS respondent and spouse as well as another randomly selected household member aged 18 or older and his/her spouse. About half of the sampled households were asked the supplement questions. Interview numbers 2, 3, 6, and 7 were asked the supplement questions. If the selected person had a spouse or partner then questions were also asked of the spouse/partner.
This study is a complex sample using stratification and primary sampling units (clusters).
description: Datasets: 
DS1: Arts Basic Survey State-Level Data Tables, United States, 2020
description: The basic CPS universe consisted of all persons aged 15 years and older in the civilian noninstitutional population of the United States living in households. The 2020 ABS supplement universe is comprised of persons 18 years of age or older from about half of the eligible CPS households. Smallest Geographic Unit: Core-based statistical area
description: computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI); computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)Users are strongly encouraged to refer the User Guide (produced by the Census Bureau), which contains the supplement questionnaire, as well as additional detailed technical documentation regarding the study design, sampling frame used, and response