About the data

The data used to document European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017 is primarily collected by the Aarhus 2017 Foundation, with the purpose of monitoring and overseeing the development of the 442 projects. 

Since 2013, the Aarhus 2017 Foundation has collected monitoring data on an annual basis, and in 2017 the data collection was extended to include audience counts at the 628 events in the European Capital of Culture programme. 

In order to secure data for all ompact areas, including cultural, social economic, image and identity and political/organisational, data from a number of external sources has beed used, including Statistics Denmark, VisitDenmark, COWI, VisitAarhus, Epinion, Meltwater, Infomedia, Seismonaut, as well as the evalueation partnership with Aarhus University rethinkIMPACTS 2017.

The data, detailed briefs on methods and more background information is available here at our website.

Reed more about the evaluation partnership between Aarhus 2017 Foundation and Aarhus University at http://projects.au.dk/aarhus2017/