SICCRED database

SICCRED (Societal Impacts of Culture and Creativity Regional European Dashboard) is an interactive platform allowing to consult, for 209 regions in European OECD countries, the impact of employment in cultural and creative sectors (CCS) on the eleven dimensions of well-being considered in the OECD's regional Better Life Index: access to services (share of households with broadband access), civic engagement (voter turnout), community (percentage of people who believe they can rely on a friend in case of need), education (share of population aged 15-64 with educational level 3 or higher), environment (average concentration of particulate matter PM2.5 in the air in µg/m3), health (life expectancy at birth), housing (average number of rooms per person in a dwelling), income (net disposable income per capita in PPS), jobs (employment rate for the population aged 15-64), safety (homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants) and life satisfaction (on a scale 0-10). In addition, the impact on the average labour productivity (gross added value per employee at constant prices Euro 2015) is added, given that this defines the possibilities for economic performance and material well-being, and on the number of tourist overnight stays (in all tourist accommodations), given the intertwining of the CCS with the tourism sector and its role in the tourist attractiveness of the regions. The estimates are made using Causal Forest, a novel and sophisticated technique that combines machine learning with causal inference. You can access the platform at this URL: https://www.mesoc-project.eu/resources/SICCRED