The process of defining strategic approaches to the governance and support of culture, for determining and assessing policy, measuring outputs and outcomes and responding to calls for greater accountability demands appropriate policy instruments. This explains the enhanced level of interest internationally in recent years in the development of cultural indicators and establishing their connections to indicators in other policy realms such as the social, economic and environmental sectors. 

The Research project "Hong Kong Arts and Cultural Indicators" was designed to serve the following purposes: as criteria for observing the cultural vitality of Hong Kong as a metropolis, as measurement for the impact of culture and arts on overall social development, as integrated indicators for the government's reference in overall policymaking on cultural development, assess the effectiveness of government's support on the arts and culture, provide data and advice in improving arts policymaking and policy implementation, prepare a data base for the creative industries in Hong Kong, and as a Hong Kong brand product, to be released regularly (annual or biannual) to arouse the public attention to and discussion on the arts and culture of Hong Kong.

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