What cities promise, what evaluations report — 15 candidate indicators for SDG 18

Derived from 167 bid books and 41 evaluation & monitoring reports · a cause for debate
  1. 1 Event attendance Social 141/167 promised · 34/41 reported · 34 countries
  2. 2 visitor numbers Social 136/167 promised · 33/41 reported · 34 countries
  3. 3 budget allocation Economic 146/167 promised · 25/41 reported · 34 countries
  4. 4 Funding — private sponsor Economic 137/167 promised · 25/41 reported · 34 countries
  5. 5 programme expenditure Economic 134/167 promised · 23/41 reported · 34 countries
  6. 6 number of cultural events Cultural Vibrancy 113/167 promised · 31/41 reported · 34 countries
  7. 7 promotion and marketing expenditure Economic 133/167 promised · 22/41 reported · 34 countries
  8. 8 project budget Economic 119/167 promised · 24/41 reported · 34 countries
  9. 9 number of projects Cultural Vibrancy 88/167 promised · 29/41 reported · 32 countries
  10. 10 sustained multi-sector partnership for cultural governance Governance 96/167 promised · 27/41 reported · 32 countries
  11. 11 number of theatres Infrastructure 88/167 promised · 20/41 reported · 33 countries
  12. 12 media coverage Image and Perceptions 49/167 promised · 27/41 reported · 32 countries
  13. 13 cultural infrastructure investment costs Infrastructure 85/167 promised · 19/41 reported · 30 countries
  14. 14 number of city partners Governance 70/167 promised · 19/41 reported · 31 countries
  15. 15 resident awareness of ecoc Image and Perceptions 32/167 promised · 24/41 reported · 28 countries
29%

Of the indicator concepts a winning city promised in its own bid book, this share is reported against by that same city's own evaluation or monitoring report.

14 cities with both documents · 429 of 1478 promised concepts · corpus-wide 27.3% · intent (bid books) is never blurred with outcome (evaluations).