The SPPA also allows the measurement of participation in the arts and culture through various media. These results are discussed in Section 3. Nearly seven out of ten American adults report having participated in at least one of the eight key art forms through the medium of television or video in the previous year. Among the ten states, this rate is highest in California and lowest in Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and California show the highest levels of participation via radio broadcasts, and Ohio and Pennsylvania report the lowest levels.
New Jersey has the highest participation rate, followed by California.
Five out of nine American adults report having been involved in one or another form of direct artistic creation in the previous twelve months. Approximately four out of every ten American adults report participation in one or another art form through personal performance. Of the ten states considered here, Florida has the highest rate of participation in performance followed by Massachusetts. Ohio reports the lowest rate of participation in personal performance and California the second lowest. Sections 5 and 6 of the monograph ask what the relationship is between participation rates across art forms.