Per capita discretionary culture spending by municipalities

This dataset lists the dollar amount in the Financial Information Report (FIR) Line 1650 "Other Culture Services" for each of the 19 municipalities with Municipal Cultural Plans (MCP) approved no later than 2009, and, for a control group of the five largest municipalities with no record of cultural planning activity at the start of the project. This is over the period of 2002-2010. Expenditures for the MCP group were noted two years prior and two years post MCP approval by council.

An average of percentage change was taken for the MCP group and the control group. **Exemption:** Security *[MCP]: Municipal Cultural Plans