Demographic Variation in Arts Engagement Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis ...

Prior research documents strong associations between arts engagement and a number of improved health and well-being outcomes. However, less is known about how levels of arts engagement differ across cultures and across demographic groups within those different cultures. This study presents an in-depth, cross-national exploration of arts engagement across cultures, and its variations across key demographic groups. Using a diverse and international dataset of approximately 100,000 individuals from 22 countries, we will examine relationships between arts engagement and key demographics, including: age, gender, marital status, employment status, religious service attendance, education, and immigration status. Our descriptive results will also present the ordered means of arts engagement across countries. We will be mindful of potential interpretation challenges due to varying cultural contexts and response scales used. Our work will illuminate the distributions and descriptive statistics of arts engagement ...