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Encourage children today to build audiences for tomorrow
This briefing explores the relationship between childhood arts experience and arts engagement patterns in adulthood. The analysis is based on data from the Taking Part adult survey 2005/06, and is the result of a collaboration between the Arts Council Research team and Dr Tak Wing Chan from the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
The analysis confirms that being encouraged to engage in the arts when growing up has a significant impact on the chances of being an active arts consumer as an adult, even when a range of other socio-economic factors have been taken into account. The effect of childhood experience is very strong – almost as strong as the effect of education, one of the strongest predictors of arts engagement. We also report on how family background and personal demographics influence the chances that an individual was encouraged by their parents to get involved with the arts.
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