The Creative Industries data was
produced by Americans for the Arts (AFTA). To
create the reports, AFTA gathers information
on businesses from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B),
a global corporation with the resources to track
all kinds of businesses and industries. Only
those business that are registered with D&B
get counted among the Creative Industries, so
even though the South Carolina Arts Alliance
has promoted registration and the South Carolina
Arts Commission now requires a D&B number
from all grant applicants, we know that these
are very conservative figures. We need to get
all arts organizations and artists to register.
There is no cost and it and it only takes a few
minutes by phone or on the D&B web site.
When individual artists and arts businesses register
with D&B, they are also asked to either describe
themselves or to provide the Standard Industrial
Classification (SIC) code, an 8-digit used by
the federal government
to classify organizations, that they feel best
describes their work. AFTA has identified 644
SICs related to the arts, and they use them to
poll the businesses that make up the Creative
Industries.
Key Points about the Creative Industries
