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"The journal has helped to break down some of the disciplinary barriers between the humanities and the social sciences by opening up a wide range of new questions in cultural theory."
Creator(s): SAGE Publications | Date Published: 2006
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"Volume 31, No. 1 (2006). Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art."
Creator(s): Canadian Journal of Communication | Date Published: 2006
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Public: Art, Culture, Ideas
Creator(s): Public Access | Date Published: 2005
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Logos: a quarterly journal of modern culture
Creator(s): Logos | Date Published: 2005
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In July 2007 James Purnell, the Secretary of State for Culture, asked Sir Brian McMaster, former Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, to undertake a review to report on the effect of excellence in arts and culture on society
Creator(s): Sir James Purnell | Date Published: 2008-01
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"Central in the policy of development cooperation is how people want to be helped. That takes creativity and awareness. Culture gives the power and the space to work on the millennium objectives. It is an intrinsic part of combating poverty."
Creator(s): Schuring, Jos & Alfred Marseille | Date Published: 2007-11
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"In October and November 2006, questionnaires were mailed out to residents of five British Columbia communities that had shown some interest in participating in the study, namely, Comox Valley, Kamloops, Nanaimo, Port Moody and Prince George. A random selection of 2000 households in each community received questionnaires, making a total of 10,000 distributed."
Creator(s): Alex C. Michalos and P. Maurine Kahlke, Institute for Social Research and Evaluation, University of Northern British Columbia | Date Published: 2007-09-24
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"The creative industries are a new way of doing business, but the policy interventions to support them proveed to work in old, industrial ways."
Creator(s): Demos | Date Published: 2007-06
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"Documents the key role played by the nonprofit arts and culture industry in strengthening our nation’s economy."
Creator(s): Americans for the Arts | Date Published: 2007-05-22
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"The main aim of Impacts 08 is to develop an exemplary, longitudinal ‘Liverpool Model’ for cultural impact assessment that will measure and analyse the socio-economic and cultural impacts of Liverpool's European Capital of Culture programme."
Creator(s): IMPACTS 08 European Capital of Culture Research Programme | Date Published: 2007-03
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"This study is a first at European level. It highlights the direct (in terms of GDP, growth and employment) as well as the indirect (links between creativity and innovation, links with the ICT sector, regional development and attractiveness) contribution of the cultural and creative sectors towards the Lisbon Agenda."
Creator(s): KEA European Affairs | Date Published: 2006-12
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"In this survey, we refer to arts in a very broad sense to include such things as music, dance, theatre, painting, sculpture, pottery, literature (novels, short stories, poetry), photography, quilting, gardening, flower arranging, textile and fabric art."
Creator(s): Institute for Social Research and Evaluation, University of Northern British Columbia | Date Published: 2006-10
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"This new OECD project will provide an approach to measuring the economic and social importance of culture and will deliver initial quantitative estimates of these measures. The project will also explore the linkages between culture and well-being."
Creator(s): John C. Gordon and Helen Beilby-Orrin | Date Published: 2006-08-09
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"Leading organisations from across the cultural sector joined together for the first time to publish a vision for the future and a plan of action."
Creator(s): Museums, Libraries and Archives Council | Date Published: 2006-06-08
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« La Direction du lectorat, de la recherche et des politiques a complété un ensemble de portraits statistiques portant sur les différentes régions administratives du Québec. »
Creator(s): Claude Edgar Dalphond | Date Published: 2006-06
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"Positive signs of support for the arts are everywhere."
Creator(s): Sandra S. Ruppert | Date Published: 2006
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"CARL congratulates SSHRC on having formally adopted the principle of open access at the October 2004 meeting of its governing council, and for carrying the commitment forward through a consultation process with the wider community. The initiative is both timely and welcome. Open access is an important development in scholarly communication: CARL believes that the issues which it raises are essential for SSHRC to address if it is to transform itself ‘from Granting Council to Knowledge Council.’"
Creator(s): The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) | Date Published: 200511
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« Le marché mondial de la culture est en pleine expansion. Les échanges commerciaux en ce domaine ont quadruplé dans la période de 1980 à 1998, passant de 95,3 milliards à 387,9 milliards de dollars américains (UNESCO, 2000), pour atteindre 831 milliards de dollars en 2000. Quant aux estimés pour la fin 2005, ils avoisinent les 1 300 milliards de dollars. »
Creator(s): Université du Québec | Date Published: 2005-12
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"In the fall of 2004, API approached the Center for the Study of Art & Community (CSA&C;) for assistance with the proposed research. This study was undertaken to help the growing but largely disconnected community arts field learn from its most venerable and successful colleagues. Its focus is exemplary arts-based programs that have had a significant and sustained positive impact on their communities. For the purposes of this inquiry “significant and sustained positive impact” is defined as change leading to the long-term advancement of human dignity, health and/or productivity. “Long-term” in this context is defined as a minimum of ten years."
Creator(s): Community Arts Network | Date Published: 2005-11
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"The arts are central to all civilizations. They provide a means for personal and political expression, for conveying ideas and emotions, and for preserving cultural knowledge from generation to generation."
Creator(s): The Foundation Center | Date Published: 2005-10
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"This report provides an interim update on IFACCA’s 19th D’Art question, distributed on 11 October 2004, that sought to find arts and education experts from around the world. The question was part of a project in which IFACCA is collaborating with UNESCO and the Australia Council for the Arts to produce an arts and education research 'compendium."
Creator(s): International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) | Date Published: 2005-04
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"RAND Study Says Arts Policy Should Focus On Building Individual Appreciation of the Arts."
Creator(s): RAND Corporation | Date Published: 2005-02-15
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"Within this report you will fi nd six Reference Point stories, which stand as examples of government’s commitment to culture in New Zealand and the benefi ts that will accrue both nationally and internationally when we have a strong national identity."
Creator(s): Temanatu Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage | Date Published: 2005
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"This essay by Tessa Jowell, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, examines the relationship between Government and the cultural sector."
Creator(s): Tessa Jowell, British Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport | Date Published: 2004-05
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"This report is based on a major independent research study undertaken by Morris Hargreaves McIntyre. 4,294 adult festival goers completed short questionnaires at a range of six different folk festivals in England during July, August and September 2002. A further representative, weighted sample of 450 of these adults then completed long questionnaires during October 2002."
Creator(s): Arts Council England | Date Published: 2004-03
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"The document outlines long-term Australia Council commitment to fostering an environment in which the arts are an integral part of every Australian child's education."
Creator(s): Australia Council for the Arts | Date Published: 2004
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"The Culture Plan proposes 60 recommendations that will allow Toronto to fulfill its potential as a ‘Creative City’, or global cultural capital."
Creator(s): City of Toronto | Date Published: 2003
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"This report describes some sessions that discussed the cultural implications of exurban."
Creator(s): Maureen Williams | Date Published: 2002-06-01
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"The arts and culture sector is a broad, diverse and multi-dimensional area of endeavour, and a source of enjoyment for Canadians."
Creator(s): The Outspan Group | Date Published: 1999-03-01
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"Attendance at cultural events, reading books or periodicals, and making music or singing in a choir as determinants for survival: Swedish interview survey of living conditions."
Creator(s): Lars Olov Bygren, head of department,a Boinkum Benson Konlaan, research assistant,a Sven-Erik Johansson, senior statistician | Date Published: 1996-12-21
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"Audience studies (or visitor studies) is a specialized field which provides information on visitors, non-visitors, and other audience groups of cultural heritage facilities, including: who visits and why, attitudes, expectations, and sources of satisfaction and dissatisfaction."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1996
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"All around the world, the instrinsic virtues and the impact of culture on individual and community development are being questioned, studied, measured and, hopefully, rediscovered. There is a keen interest in the specific relationship between the arts and culture and the economic and social development of our communities."
Creator(s): Simon Brault | Date Published: 03-2005
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"Home of the Richard Florida Creativity Group."
Creator(s): Richard Florida | Date Published: ?
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"Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels."
Creator(s): Harvard Graduate School of Education
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"The Social Impact of the Arts Project is a research center of the Penn School of Social Work."
Creator(s): Social Impact of the Arts Project
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"ArtsSmarts is the largest education initiative in Canada dedicated to improving the lives and learning capacity of Canadian children by injecting arts into their academic programs."
Creator(s): ArtsSmarts
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"Very special circumstances brought the Institut de la statistique du Québec and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics together to organize a Symposium on Culture Statistics, which was held from 21 to 23 October 2002."
Creator(s): International Symposium on Culture Statistics | Event Start Date: 2002-10-21
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"This paper estimates and analyses the economic impact of the culture sector on the Canadian provinces. It measures the contribution of the culture sector to provincial GDP and employment between 1996 and 2003."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2007-03-30
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"Canadian consumers spent over $25 billion on cultural goods and services in 2005."
Creator(s): Hill Strategies Research | Date Published: 2007-02-21
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"This article examines the culture sector’s contribution to the Canadian economy. It measures the impact of the culture sector on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment. In 2002, GDP from culture activities amounted to more than $39 billion, an increase of 37% from the 1996 figure of approximately $29 billion."
Creator(s): Vik Singh, Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-04-07
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"A scholarly journal in cultural and Canadian studies."
Creator(s): York University | Date Published: 2006
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« La synthèse du volet quantitatif de l'étude sur les pratiques culturelles et artistiques des Grenoblois, pilotée par l'Observatoire des politiques culturelles à la demande de la Ville de Grenoble et réalisée sous la direction scientifique de Jean-Paul Bozonnet (maître de conférence en sociologie, Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble), vient de paraître. »
Creator(s): L'Observatoire des politiques culturelles | Date Published: 2006-03
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"This report beings with a description of the private sector's involvement and contribution to cultural funding, as well as the initiatives and mechanisms set up to promote this involvement."
Creator(s): Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal | Date Published: 2005-11
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Max Wyman's presentation to FPT Ministers meeting, Banff, September 16, 2005
Creator(s): Max Wyman | Date Published: 2005-09-16
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"What is today called the social economy, or social entrepreurship, includes some very old organizations such as credit unions, agricultural co-operatives, and the YMCAs. In this article, Nancy Neamtam describes an emerging cohort of young social entrepreneurs who are combining social goals and entrepreneurial strategies with brio."
Creator(s): Nancy Neamtam, Institute for Research on Public Policy | Date Published: 2005-07
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"The Second World Culturelink Conference, held in Zagreb from 9 to 12 June 2005, was attended by 150 participants from 40 countries, who represented different national and international associations, centers, cultural institutions, foundations, universities and various other organizations, or were individual Culturelink members."
Creator(s): Culturelink Network | Date Published: 2005-06-29
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"Europa Nostra position paper to the European Union institutions."
Creator(s): Europa Nostra | Date Published: 2005-06
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"This is a sequel to Ann Daly's essay, "Richard Florida's High-class Glasses," originally published in Summer 2004 in the Grantmakers in the Arts Reader."
Creator(s): Ann Daly | Date Published: 2005
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"Art is almost completely instrumentalised —regardless of whether its financing is private or public. Art services either national or European interests, where it is especially useful in the construction or reinforcement of specific identities. At the same time, art is a desirable commercial product. It is ideal for collecting and it contributes to regional development whilst providing society with new creative employment opportunities."
Creator(s): Maria Lind, Raimund Minichbauer | Date Published: 2005
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"International Comparisons of Cultural Sectors: An Exploritory Investigation."
Creator(s): Policy Communication Research, Australia Council for the Arts | Date Published: 2004-10
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"On the basis of this study and the report from the Effect Committee the paper discusses the regional effects of state policy in general with an emphasis on cultural policy. The main conclusion is that in state cultural policy there has become considerably less regional and district policy the last 10-15 years."
Creator(s): Georg Arnestad, Research Coordinator, Sogn og Fjordane University College | Date Published: 2004
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"This study examines the relationship between the justification of cultural policies and performance indicators in Quebec, the European Union and the United Kingdom. While these three geographic zones continue to widen their definition of cultural participation and emphasize partnerships with cities, the private sector and civil society, considerable differences exist between Quebec and Europe."
Creator(s): Christian Poirier | Date Published: 2003-11-15
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"This workshop examined recent research on social determinants of health which increasingly considers social capital and social inequality as factors affecting population health."
Creator(s): Liudmila Kirpitchenko | Date Published: 2003-09-19
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"This report reviews the definition of Canadian content as it applies to film and television production and its relationship to public funding."
Creator(s): François Macerola | Date Published: 2003-06
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"The work attempts to clarify the place of social capital among the social determinants of health."
Creator(s): Health Canada | Date Published: 2003
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"Research findings are needed to evaluate the potential of culture and the arts as a strategic resource for society, as well as to inform the debate on the societal justification of the arts."
Creator(s): ARSIS Magazine - Arts Council of Finland | Date Published: 2002-03
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"The cornerstone publication of a project with the Pew Charitable Trusts that explores how cultural leaders and decision makers can strengthen their states' cultural activity."
Creator(s): M. Christine Dwyer and Susan Frankel | Date Published: 2002
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"This is the third report on the research on values and economics of cultural heritage which was started at the Getty Conservation Institute in 1995. The early results of this project highlighted some issues fundamental to the field that were in need of further consideration. Among these were the lack of recognized and widely accepted methodologies for the assessment of cultural values, as well as the difficulties of comparing the results of economic and cultural values assessments."
Creator(s): The Getty Conservation Institute | Date Published: 2002
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"Culture, as stated by the World Conference on Cultural Policies in Mexico City in 1982, is a leading source of intellectual renewal and human growth, and can be understood as embracing all creative activity, not only the traditional, or 'high', arts but popular mass culture as well."
Creator(s): Lia Ghilardi (Noema Research and Planning Ltd, London) | Date Published: 2002
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"Education in the arts and humanities always has been important to both America’s arts and culture and its competitiveness in a global economy. Indeed, one might well argue that a complete education in the arts and humanities is even more critical today."
Creator(s): Ann M. Galligan | Date Published: 2001-12
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"This report summarizes more recently funded (c.1995-2001) activities of national, provincial, and community-based organizations as well as academic and organizational research projects."
Creator(s): Marilyn Smith | Date Published: 2001-10-01
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"The National Symposium on Arts Education (NSAE) has been working since 1997 to build consensus around a Shared Vision for Arts Education in Canada."
Creator(s): The National Symposium on Arts Education | Date Published: 2001-07-03
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"This study of heritage institutions in Canada provides a national profile of the sector, estimates the economic impact of the sector and goes beyond this traditional analysis to examine the socio-economic benefits of these institutions."
Creator(s): The Outspan Group Inc. | Date Published: 2001
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"The present volume offers new and important empirical results on the economic worth of languages as well as new insights in theoretically vexing problems."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1999
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"As many indigenous communities in North America and elsewhere begin to develop language revitalization programs, they inevitably must face the decision of whether or not to incorporate written forms of their historically oral languages into their efforts."
Creator(s): Brian Bielenberg | Date Published: 1999
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"In May 1995, the Department of Canadian Heritage invited a group of people from academia, business, and other backgrounds to informally discuss the different relationships that could be presumed to exist between Canada's official languages and the economy."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1998
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"The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the accomplishments of the Canadian model of official bilingualism, based upon the coexistence of English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians and upon a partnership between federal and provincial governments in serving citizens' needs and interests."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1998
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"Preliminary results suggest that growing pressures on the middle-income group may be having an impact on social cohesion in Canada. This deck outlines the evolving Canadian Values: Exploring Income Fault-lines."
Creator(s): Andrew Leuty and Sharon Jeannotte | Date Published: 1997-11-18
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"This blue plate special presents the main points of presentations on the topic of citizenship values and social cohesion given by Dr Paul Reed (Carleton University) and Professor Neil Nevitte (University of Toronto)."
Creator(s): M. Wernick et T. Herman | Date Published: 1997-11-18
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"The Department of Canadian Heritage gave the SECOR Group a mandate to study various support mechanisms to the multimedia industry in Canada. This request reflects the Department’s interest in a sector of activity that is both very promising from an economic and job-creation point of view and unavoidable as a new product and method of cultural dissemination."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1997
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"The National Gallery of Canada mounted a very successful major Exhibition — Renoir Portraits — between June 27 and September 14, 1997. The Exhibition, featuring 61 Renoir paintings, attracted almost 340,000 visitors from the local area, other Canadian provinces, the USA and other countries."
Creator(s): National Gallery of Canada/Canadian Tourism Commission/Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1997
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"On Friday, May 5, 1995, a colloquium entitled Official Languages and the Economy: New Canadian Perspectives was held in Ottawa. Organized by the Department of Canadian Heritage, this meeting allowed participants to hear the different points of view from a dozen specialists from the public sector, universities and the private sector."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1996
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"Nordicity Group Limited prepared this report for the Task Force on the Future of the Music Industry in Canada."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 1995-06-05
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"The survey of studies analysis second-language immersion and debates surrounding these programs in Canada."
Creator(s): Ghislain Savoie | Date Published: 1995-05-15
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"The Canadian Internet Project / Projet Internet Canada (CIP) is a representational survey of Canadians that provides data and analysis for ongoing research in the area of internet use and non-use patterns. The study explores the behaviour and attitudes of both users and non-users and the economic, cultural, and social implications of the internet in Canada, in comparative perspective."
Creator(s): Canadian Internet Project | Date Published: 2006
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"In Canada, we have tried to strike a balance that allows us to participate fully in the global culture, while at the same time ensuring that our unique voice is not drowned out in the process."
Creator(s): Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005
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"The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) is an independent advisory body that provides decision makers, opinion leaders and the Canadian public with advice and recommendations for promoting sustainable development."
Creator(s): National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Date Published: 2005
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"By the release of the second annual study there will be a national conference examining the project’s findings. Policy makers, industry leaders and others will be invited to learn about the nature and extent of the influence of PC/Internet technology and to speculate on its meaning."
Creator(s): UCLA Center for Communication Policy, NTU School of Communication Studies (Singapore), Osservatorio Internet Italia at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) | Date Published: 2005
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"Welcome to PORTAL, the British Academy's directory of online resources in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed as an entry point to available resources for those working in higher education and research."
Creator(s): The British Academy | Date Published: 2001
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"The Atlantic Research Network in culture, Multimedia, Technology and Cognition is a network of artists, information technologists and scholars researching the role of culture in the appreciation and creation of new media. Artist-technology collaborations, innovation and the creation of an Atlantic Canada multimedia cultural archive are some of the objectives of Arts-Netlantic."
Creator(s): Atlantic Canada New Media Research Network in Cultural, Multimedia, Technology, and Cognition | Date Published: 1999
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"These tables provide financial data on cultural activities funded by all levels of government. Included are expenditures on libraries, heritage activities, performing arts, literary arts, visual arts and crafts, broadcasting, film and video, etc."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-10-31
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"This report is intended to provide some indication of where Canada might stand now compared with other countries in relation to arts funding, in particular at the national level."
Creator(s): Claire McCaughey | Date Published: 2005-10
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"Government Spending on Culture in Canada, 1992-93 to 2002-03, commissioned by the Canadian Conference of the Arts from Hill Strategies Research, examines spending on culture by federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada, focusing largely on changes in spending between 1992-93 and 2002-03. The report also provides an overview of government cultural spending for fiscal year 2002-03."
Creator(s): Hill Strategies Research Inc. | Date Published: 2005-07-07
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"These Useful Statistics (updated June 2005) are for anyone and everyone interested in concrete data that reflects the impact of arts, culture, and heritage on the Canadian economy and society, as well as the current state of our cultural industries."
Creator(s): Canadian Conference of the Arts | Date Published: 2005-06
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"The survey - in two volumes - encompasses data on: attendance (type, reasons, likelihood of return etc); perception of value for money; participation (frequency, nature etc); viewing and listening habits; attitudes towards the arts; awareness of the Scottish Arts Council, and more."
Creator(s): Scottish Arts Council | Date Published: 2005-06
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"Canadian consumers spent $22.8 billion on cultural items in 2003."
Creator(s): Hill Strategies Research Inc. | Date Published: 2005-05-31
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"Statistics Canada survey data and analysis covering the topic of government expenditures (at all levels) on culture in Canada."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-05-18
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"The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was a seven-country initiative conducted in the fall of 1994. Its goal was to create comparable literacy profiles across national, linguistic and cultural boundaries."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2005-03-24
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"This national telephone survey was carried out between January 5 and January 31, 2005, and was based on a random sample of 1,963 Canadians 16 years of age and older, including an oversample of respondents from minority official-language communities."
Creator(s): Créatec + for the Department of Canadian Heritage | Date Published: 2005-03
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"Arts and culture play a key role in enhancing our economy and economic competitiveness. There are over 14,000 arts and cultural workers in the province. Manitoba has one of the highest per capita revenue and attendance levels for arts and culture in Canada. A recent study by the Canada West Foundation, Culture and Economic Competitiveness, highlights the social benefits that cultural industries can provide."
Creator(s): Manitoba Industry, Economic Development and Mines | Date Published: 2005
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"One of the rationales for examining culture clusters is to better understand the link between culture and economic development."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2004-10
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"EEC Canada has estimated there are approximately 1,250 individuals (+/- 10%) working in the music industry of New Brunswick."
Creator(s): Étude Économique Conseil (EEC Canada) Inc. for Music Industry Association of New Brunswick | Date Published: 2004-04
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"This study estimates the economic impact of 14 heritage institutions in the Yukon as well as the Yukon government’s spending on museums."
Creator(s): Luigi Zanasi and the Yukon Historical and Museums Association | Date Published: 2003-12
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"Cultural Sector's Economic Contribution to Canada - Economic Impact."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage, Strategic Research and Analysis | Date Published: 2002-06
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"Cultural activities in Canada range from children’s festivals, the restoration of heritage properties, music festivals and the production of films based on Canadian stories, to providing access to books and information through library systems."
Creator(s): Statistics Canada | Date Published: 2000-12-22
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« Ce dossier statistique livre les données de la dernière enquête sur les pratiques culturelles des Québécoises et des Québécois, menée en 1999 par le ministère de la Culture et des Communications. »
Creator(s): Culture et Communications Québec | Date Published: 2000-12
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"This text is an updated version of a study published under the same title following the 1991 Census."
Creator(s): Department of Canadian Heritage; Marmen, Louise; Corbeil, Jean-Pierre | Date Published: 1999
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"This issue of ArtFacts examines spending by the federal, provincial and municipal governments on culture in Ontario, based on data from Statistics Canada survey of Government Expenditures on Culture."
Creator(s): Ontario Arts Council | Date Published: 1997
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"CCRN is hosted by the Centre for Cultural Management at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada."
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"CPRN's mission is to create knowledge and lead public debate on social and economic issues important to the well-being of Canadians. Our goal is to help make Canada a more just, prosperous, and caring society."
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"Provides a forum to discuss and analyze issues of mutual concern, and more particularly examines the roles, responsibilities and impact of media in Canada's policy processes. OMPP also gathers and disseminates data on media content."
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"Providing programs for young people, resources for teachers and artists, and advocacy for the arts in education throughout British Columbia."
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"The aim of EFA is to promote the highest ideas and significance of festivals through common publicity and by any appropriate means to maintain and develop high artistic quality of festivals and their important role in the international cultural cooperation."
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"The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, it is necessary that they be informed about the problems and choices that they face. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options."
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"The Center supports a democratic vision of American arts and cultural life."
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