Alberta Creative/Cultural Activity Tr...

Alberta has been conducting the Alberta Recreation Survey every four years since 1981. The following creative/cultural trend data was obtained for the 20 year period from 1988 to 2008 by extracting data from each of the survey reports.

Alberta Creative/Cultural Activity Trends - 1988 to 2008
% households participating

listed by most popular in 2008

Activity	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008
Attending a fair/festival				59.6	56.7	62.4
Craft/Creative Hobby	67.7	54.2	58.8	67.9	63.8	54.3
Visiting a museum. art gallery	65.4	47.3	52.3	71.5	50.9	51.4
Attending Live Theatre*					51.9	44.7
Taking part in the arts**	33.0	28.3	30.6	35.7	30.8	29.4
Dancing	46.9	39.1	34.4	33.8	29.4	27.3
Doing other hobbies						19.1
Other creative/cultural activity						3.2

* this category previously included in 'visiting a museum, art gallery, live performance
** e.g. drama, music, writing, drawing
Source: http://tpr.alberta.ca/recreation/ars/default.aspx