State-Level ACPSA Resources

IntroductionBackgroundPress ReleaseState-Level Summary BriefState Summary TableState Fact Sheets by the U.S. Bureau of Economic AnalysisACPSA Table: 2001-2023 National Assembly of State Arts Agencies’ Creative Economy State ProfilesKey to Arts and Cultural Industries: 2023Arts and Cultural Value-Added and Employment in Rural StatesThe Arts Economy in U.S. TerritoriesGet the Data on NADAC (National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture)!

Background

Dataset

Arts and Cultural Production Satellite Account (ACPSA)—state-level estimates.

Periodicity

Launched in 2013, the ACPSA is intended as an annual product. Complete state estimates, corresponding with the national account, first became available in 2018.

Source/Sponsor

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

Research Topic

Arts and cultural contributions to Gross State Product (GSP); employment and compensation by arts and cultural industries

Notable Features

State-level estimates of arts and cultural value-added, employment, and compensation by industry

Full time-series spans state data from 2001 to 2023, with estimates also including:

  • Location quotients (i.e., a state’s concentration of arts and cultural value-added, employment, or compensation indexed to the overall U.S. share of 1.0)

Updates

This release shows new estimates for 2023, in addition to providing revised data for 2001-2022. Statistics reported this year supersede all prior ACPSA statistics. The 2017 Benchmark Input-Output Table, produced by BEA in 2023, is the new inter-industry framework for ACPSA statistics. Prior ACPSA data sets used the 2012 inter-industry framework and, therefore, are not directly comparable. 

Overview

The new state-level dataset includes data on the arts and cultural economy for 2023. 
Between 2022 and 2023, all but three states have experienced an increase in the economic value contributed by arts industries, with 15 states showing gains of 10 percent or more, without adjusting for inflation. Indeed, for the second consecutive year, the arts’ economic value exceeded 2019 levels in all 50 states and D.C. 

Employment trends in these industries paint a different picture. Following the COVID-19 pandemic era, growth in arts employment has been uneven across the states. Although 27 states logged an increase in total arts employment from 2022 to 2023, only 23 have reached or surpassed 2019 employment levels.