Australian Practicing Professional Artists (1993)

Other Studies of Multiple Artist Populations

Investigator: David Throsby

Population: Writers, craftspeople, visual artists, composers, directors/designers, actors/puppeteers, dancers, choreographers, musicians, singers, and community artists.

Identification method: Artists drawn from extensive pooling of membership lists of associations and unions with information from grant applicant data base of the Australia Council.

Sampling procedure: Stratified sample frame based on the number of artists of different kinds appearing among persons identified as artists, with estimates for different fields checked against Australian Census data.

N and Response rate: N=950; response rate unavailable in works reviewed.

Publications: Throsby, D. 1996. "Disaggregated Earnings Functions for Artists." In V.A. Ginsburgh and P.M. Menger (eds.), Economics of the Arts –Selected Essays. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science B.V.

Throsby, D. 1994. "A Work-Preference Model of Artist Behaviour." Pp. 69-80 in A. Peacock and I. Rizzo (eds.), Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies. Boston: Kluwer Academic.

Throsby, D. and Thompson, B. 1994. But What Do You Do for A Living? A New Economic Study of Australian Artists. Sydney: Australia Council.

Throsby, D. and Thompson, B. 1995. The Artist at Work. Sydney: Australia Council.

Summary: Australian survey of practicing professional artists across disciplines. This survey is very similar to that performed by Throsby ten years prior (see Australian Practicing Professional Artists [1983]).