Research and data
Data
What Live Index publishes today is national data drawn from federal statistical agencies, documented before it is published: source series, observation period, retrieval date, units and derivation. Research datasets built from our own collection are specifications, not releases.
National indicators from federal statistical agencies
The current published Live Index dataset: admissions prices against the general price level, household spending on live entertainment, performing arts employment, and the promoter and live-event workforce. Each series is stored as its agency released it and carries the source agency, series identifier, source URL, observation period and retrieval date.
Derived figures are arithmetic a reader can reproduce from the stored levels. No value is estimated to cover a period an agency has not published.
Historical concert ticket prices
Sourced admission prices from the 1960s onward, each shown as it was charged and restated in current dollars using the consumer price index. Every record carries the publication it came from, the exact basis of the price and the index level applied.
These are individual benchmarks separated by decades, not a continuous price series. Face value is what a promoter set; resale, fees and dynamic pricing sit outside these records.
Published
Updated
Federal statistical series describing national conditions for live music: consumer prices for admissions, household outlay on live entertainment, performing arts payroll employment and promoter-industry wages. Stored exactly as the agencies publish them, with revisions corrected in place.
Monthly, with annual series on their release schedule · United States, 2011 to present · JSON
Collection specifications for datasets Live Index is building. They are documented here for transparency and publish no figures.