Dataset

Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA)

Periodicity

The ACPSA is updated annually

Source/Sponsor

Partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Research & Analysis and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

Research Topic

The arts economy

Notable Features

Inflation-adjusted estimates of the arts and culture’s real contribution to the U.S. economy

Value added

Gross output

Full time-series spanning 1998-2019

Employment and compensation by arts and cultural industries

Supply and consumption of arts and cultural goods and services, including imports and exports

Gross output price indexes for arts and cultural commodities

Arts and cultural commodity output and employment multipliers

Updates

This wave of the ACPSA is an accelerated release of data. It shows new estimates for 2018 and 2019, in addition to providing revised data for 2014-2017.

Overview

In 2019, the production of arts and cultural goods and services in the United States contributed $919.7 billion, or 4.3 percent, directly to the nation’s GDP. Also in 2019—the most recent year for which data are available—5.2 million wage-and-salary workers were employed to produce arts and cultural goods and services. Those workers were compensated $446.7 billion in 2019.