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Cultural Indicators for New Zealand, 2009
Cultural Indicators for New Zealand, 2009 is one report in a series produced by the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, as part of the Cultural Statistics Programme. The aim of the programme is to improve the range and quality of statistical information about the cultural sector - for the development of cultural policy by both central and local government, for monitoring the sector’s progress and performance, and for future planning.
The Cultural Statistics programme is based on the New Zealand Framework for Cultural Statistics Te Anga Tatauranga Tikanga-ā-iwi ō Aotearoa 1995, which provides a framework for the systematic collection, analysis and presentation of data related to the cultural sector.
Indicators are high-level, summary measures of key issues or phenomena that are used to monitor positive or negative changes over time. The evaluative nature of indicators distinguishes them from the more descriptive nature of statistics. One of the key purposes of indicators is to reduce the large volume of statistical information available, to a small number of key measures that allow trends to be monitored.
The cultural indicators presented in this report are designed to measure the extent to which the cultural sector is moving towards, or away from, the high-level outcomes identified for the sector – that is, they indicate whether there is an improvement or deterioration in the well-being of the cultural sector.
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