Annual Arts Benchmarking Survey

Participation in the Arts provides data on the type and frequency of adult participation in the arts; training and exposure (particularly while young).

Child Support

Identifies households with absent parents and provide data on child support arrangements, visitation rights of absent parent.

Civic Engagement

Provide information on the extent to which our nation’s communities are places where individuals are civically active.

Computer and Internet Use

Provides information about household access to computers and the use of the internet or worldwide web.

Contingent Worker

Provides information on the type of employment arrangement workers have on their current job and other characteristics of the current job such as earnings.

Disability

Provide information on labor market challenges facing persons with a disability.

Displaced Worker

Provides data on workers who lost a job in the last 5 years because of plant closing, shift elimination, or other work-related reason.

Fertility

Provides data on the number of children that women age 15-44 have ever had and the children’s characteristics.

Food Security

Provides data that will measure hunger and food security such as food expenditure, access to food, and food quality and safety.

Immigration/Emigration

Provide information on how migration patterns have changed as well as how migrants adapt to living in the United States.

Public Participation in the Arts

Participation in the Arts provides data on the type and frequency of adult participation in the arts; training and exposure (particularly while young).

School Enrollment

Provides information on the population three years and older on school enrollment, junior or regular college attendance, and high school graduation.

Tobacco Use

Provides data for population 15 years and older on current and former use of tobacco products; restrictions of smoking in workplace for employed persons.

Unbanked/Underbanked

Provides data on unbanked and underbanked households, their demographic characteristics, and their reasons for being unbanked and underbanked.

Unemployment Insurance Nonfilers

Provides data on individuals who do apply for unemployment insurance and the reasons they do not apply.

Veterans

Provides data for veterans of the Unites States on Vietnam-theater and Persian Gulf-theater status, service connected income.

Volunteering and Civic Life

Provides information on the extent to which our nation’s communities are places where individuals are civically active.

Voting and Registration

Provides demographic information on persons who did and did not register to vote. Also measures number of persons who voted and reasons for not registering.