National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support [1998-2001]

National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support collected data on public and private support for professional nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in three ways: a national mail survey of a random sample of arts organizations on their sources of revenue, more detailed mail surveys of the identified universe of arts and cultural organizations in ten specific communities, and in-person and telephone interviews with local government officials regarding public agency support (both financial and in-kind) in these ten communities. The ten communities are as follows: Amery, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; Los Angeles, California; Miami, Florida; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; New Orleans, Louisiana; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Providence, Rhode Island; and San Jose, California. A collaborative effort of Americans for the Arts and the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University, the study was supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and local arts agencies in ten communities across the country.

The National Survey collected data from professional nonprofit arts and cultural organizations on 22 revenue items for fiscal year 1998, across four categories--public contributed income, private contributed income, earned revenue, and interest and other investment income. Developed in close collaboration with the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), the survey was designed to facilitate comparisons with currently available data on the nonprofit arts, particularly data sets from arts service organizations and NCCS data sets based on IRS Form 990 data. The Local Government Support Survey involved semi-structured interviews with local officials in non-arts government agencies across 13 service areas in the ten communities profiled in this study. Among the agencies represented in these service areas were Administrative Services, Community Planning/Economic Development, Convention and Visitors Bureau, Parks and Recreation, Public Works, Police/Public Safety, and others. Two sets of interview forms were used, one to document the agency's mission and level of current and future arts involvement and a case form to document specific instances of arts support. Further, the Local Surveys, conducted in each of ten communities, collected data from professional nonprofit arts and cultural organizations on a battery of revenue items for fiscal year 1998, across four categories-public contributed income, private contributed income, earned revenue, and interest and other investment income. Developed in close collaboration with the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS), the surveys were designed to facilitate comparisons with currently available data on the nonprofit arts, particularly data sets from arts service organizations and NCCS data sets based on IRS Form 990 data.

The number of respondents across data files ranges from 7 to 796.

《文化支持的国家与地方概况》（National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support）通过三种方式收集了针对专业非营利艺术与文化组织的公共及私人支持数据：一是面向全国范围内随机抽样的艺术组织开展邮寄调查，了解其收入来源；二是针对十个特定社区中已明确的所有艺术与文化组织进行更详细的邮寄调查；三是对这十个社区的地方政府官员进行面对面及电话访谈，了解公共机构（包括资金与实物形式）的支持情况。这十个社区分别为：威斯康星州埃默里市、俄亥俄州克利夫兰市、加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市、佛罗里达州迈阿密市、马里兰州蒙哥马利县、田纳西州纳什维尔市、路易斯安那州新奥尔良市、宾夕法尼亚州费城市、罗得岛州普罗维登斯市、加利福尼亚州圣何塞市。该研究由美国人艺术协会（Americans for the Arts）与俄亥俄州立大学艺术政策与管理项目合作开展，资助方为皮尤慈善信托基金（The Pew Charitable Trusts）及全国十个社区的地方艺术机构。

全国调查收集了1998财年专业非营利艺术组织的22项收入数据，涵盖四大类别：公共捐赠收入、私人捐赠收入、经营性收入、利息及其他投资收入。该调查与国家慈善统计中心（NCCS）密切合作开发，旨在便于与现有非营利艺术领域数据进行对比，尤其是艺术服务组织的数据集及NCCS基于美国国税局990表格（IRS Form990）的数据集。地方政府支持调查针对上述十个社区13个服务领域的非艺术政府机构官员开展半结构化访谈，涉及机构包括行政服务、社区规划/经济发展、会议与旅游局、公园与娱乐、公共工程、警察/公共安全等。调查采用两类访谈表格：一类用于记录机构使命及当前与未来艺术参与程度，另一类案例表格用于记录具体的艺术支持实例。此外，在十个社区各开展的地方调查，同样收集了1998财年专业非营利艺术组织上述四类收入的详细数据，并与国家慈善统计中心（NCCS）合作开发，以促进与现有数据的对比分析。

不同数据文件中的受访者数量介于7至796之间。