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New Zealand research shows that almost three quarters of those surveyed think that culture and cultural activities are very, extremely or critically important to our sense of national identity.
The Cultural Statistics programme is based on the New Zealand Framework for Cultural Statistics Te Anga Tatauranga Tikanga-ā-iwi ō Aotearoa 1995, which provides a framework for the systematic collection, analysis and presentation of data related to the cultural sector.
Indicators are high-level, summary measures of key issues or phenomena that are used to monitor positive or negative changes over time. The evaluative nature of indicators distinguishes them from the more descriptive nature of statistics. One of the key purposes of indicators is to reduce the large volume of statistical information available, to a small number of key measures that allow trends to be monitored.
The cultural indicators presented in this report are designed to measure the extent to which the cultural sector is moving towards, or away from, the high-level outcomes identified for the sector – that is, they indicate whether there is an improvement or deterioration in the well-being of the cultural sector.
This is the second time that Cultural Indicators for New Zealand has been published. The report presents a number of new indicators, and many of the indicators have been updated. The previous report was published in 2006, and can be downloaded from Statistics New Zealand’s website, here.
