Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries
Title of Resource: Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries
Published: July 19, 2011
Publishing Organization: National Endowment for the Arts
Document Type: Research
Document Format: PDF
Summary: Cultural industries are economic powerhouses and states have the data to prove it, according to a new analysis from the National Endowment for the Arts. Drawing on data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Arts and the GDP: Value Added by Selected Cultural Industries is a new NEA research note that examines the value added by three selected cultural industries: (1) performing arts, sports, and museums; (2) motion pictures and sound recording; and (3) publishing (including software).
Combined, these three cultural industries contributed a total of $278.4 billion to the U.S. economy in 2009. The NEA research note also looks at dollars and jobs added to individual state economies by these cultural industries.
