Information on Artists (1988)

Columbia University Research Center for Arts and Culture

Investigator: Joan Jeffri, Columbia University Research Center for Arts and Culture

Population: Artists. (All disciplines as identified by organizations providing population from which the sample was drawn).

Identification method: Artists in ten U.S. locations (Boston, Cape Cod, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Western Massachusetts) were identified from lists provided by local, regional and national organizations.

Sampling procedure: Random samples selected by location from complete lists and merged with already-random sample lists by location provided by some organizations (e.g., Actors Equity). Investigator notes confidence that the sample provides a parallel portrait to that portrayed by the U.S. Census.

N and Response rate: 42 percent (4,146 of 9,870)

Publications: Jeffri, J. 1989. Information on Artists. New York: Research Center for Arts and Culture/Columbia University.

Jeffri, J. 1991. "The Artist in an Integrated Society." Pp. 96-117 in S. Benedict ed., Public Money and The Muse: Essays on Government Funding for the Arts. New York: Norton.

Summary: Information on Artists is a study of artists’ work-related human and social service needs: health care, pension, welfare, credit, live/work space, and legal and financial needs. This study would be duplicated in 1997 (See Information on Artists II).