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New Feature: Question Bank

We are excited to launch the latest feature in the Culture Counts Evaluation Platform! The Question Bank is a library of predefined questions that you can easily add to your next survey. The Bank includes questions that commonly form part...

Strategic alignment for local government

When it comes to implementing effective evaluation practices within local government, the number of policies and plans can make the task of creating a consistent evaluation framework seem completely unwieldy. In this article, Business Development Director, Jordan Gibbs explores how...

What do audiences spend? Exploring the economic impact of events

Over the past six years, Culture Counts has conducted over 400 economic impact studies to quantify how audience spending at events and activations contributes to the local economy. Business Development Director, Jordan Gibbs, explores Culture Counts’ methodology for measuring economic impact...

Act 2: National COVID-19 Audience Research (UK)

On 22 July, Indigo-Ltd released the full results of their 6-week audience survey, distributed by 258 UK cultural organisations and capturing over 103k responses. In partnership with Indigo, Culture Counts ran statistical analysis on the big data captured to offer...

Act 1: After the Interval: COVID-19 Impact on UK Arts Audiences (April Snapshot)

On 16 April 2020 Indigo-Ltd and 192 cultural organisations distributed a COVID-19 audience survey in the UK, capturing over 86k responses. In partnership with Indigo-Ltd, Culture Counts ran statistical analysis on the big data captured to offer a breakdown of...

COVID-19 Impact on Cultural Industries Comments Analysis (April Snapshot)

On 8 April, 2020 Culture Counts launched the first stage of its research to understand the impact of COVID-19 for cultural industries. We received 399 responses, with 97% of respondents from Australia. Respondents provided free text comments within the survey....

Six steps to make your data actionable

Our outcomes evaluation thinking is designed around ‘Six Steps’ – our Theory of Change methodology we are passionate about. Why? The ‘Theory of Change’ is a recognised framework that explains the cause-and-effect relationship between your strategy, activities and their impact....

A reminder on why the arts is important

This is be a sobering time to reflect on what the general public think about the arts and what value they find in it. In 2019, Culture Counts presented some initial research at the RMIT Cultural Value Forum. A summary...

Are online surveys representative of my entire audience?

One common question that we hear is if surveys are truly representative of the views of an entire audience. This is a wonderful question that gets to the heart of statistics! Is the data ‘true’? We thought we’d have a...