This chapter reviews the published data sources used
by the reports to quantitatively define their creative
economies. The purpose of this research was to inventory
and profile only the data sources the participants used to
define their creative economy and not the actual numeric
or economic results. Therefore the research did not
attempt to aggregate the actual results of these studies.
It transpired that all but one of the participants used
some combination of the North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) and the Standard