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What percentage of American adults disagree that there are plenty of chances to take part in arts and culture where they live?

28.7% of American adults disagree that there are plenty of chances to take part in arts and culture where they live - about 29 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the Household Pulse Survey for 2026.

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28.7

Where this number comes from

Survey
Household Pulse Survey
What it measured
HTOPS HPS 2607 (collected July 15 – August 3, 2026), item PARTINARTS (“Please indicate whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree with the next statement. "There are plenty of opportunities for me to take part in arts and cultural activities in my neighborhood or community."”), counting responses 3=Disagree, 4=Strongly Disagree, as a share of adults who answered (11.8% did not). Computed from the Census Bureau's public-use microdata with the person weight PWEIGHT; the standard error uses its 80 successive-difference replicate weights (4/80 · Σ of squared deviations). The counts and standard errors behind it reproduce the published table arts3. Census labels these estimates experimental; unweighted n = 11,666.
Population
U.S. adults aged 18 and over
Year
2026
95% confidence interval
26.13% to 31.27% (derived from the published standard error)

Work of the U.S. federal government - public domain. See the source data

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