New Zealanders and the Arts 2023 Survey

Creative New Zealand’s New Zealanders and the Arts is a key resource for Creative New Zealand – it helps inform our policy, planning, implementation of key strategies and programme design, and supports our partnerships and advocacy work.

Creative New Zealand’s New Zealanders and the Arts—Ko Aotearoa me ōna Toi research provides a benchmark for New Zealanders attitudes, attendance, and participation in the arts since 2005. It is a key resource for Creative New Zealand – it helps inform our policy, planning, implementation of key strategies and programme design, and supports our partnerships and advocacy work. It’s also used extensively by local authorities and arts communities in their own planning and advocacy work. The nationwide reports from the 2023 survey were released on 23 April 2024.