NEA Announces New Research on Arts Employment

Keeping My Day Job: Identifying U.S. Workers Who Have Dual Careers As Artists is the third installment in the National Endowment for the Arts’ Arts Data Profiles, an online resource offering facts and figures from large, national datasets about the arts, along with instructions for their use. Arts Data Profile #3 reports on employment statistics for U.S. workers who name “artist” as their primary or secondary job.

The analysis springs from the Current Population Survey (CPS), a nationwide, monthly survey of 60,000 American households, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of U.S. labor statistics, as well as other data on volunteering, poverty, computer and Internet use, arts participation, and more.

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Arts Data Profile Series

Pain-free introductions to arts-related datasets through summary statistics, tables, visualizations, and links to other tools and resources.

• Arts Data Profile #1 — Equal Opportunity Data Mining: National Statistics about Working Artists
• Arts Data Profile #2 — Accounting for the Nation's Arts and Cultural Goods and Services
• Arts Data Profile #3 — Keeping My Day Job: Identifying U.S. Workers Who Have Dual Careers as Artists