Australian Practicing Professional Artists (1983)

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 occupational data.

N and Response rate: N>709. Additional information unavailable in works reviewed.

Publications: Throsby, D. 1992. "Artists as Workers." Pp. 201-208 in R. Towse and A. Khakee (eds.), Cultural Economics, Berlin: Springer.

Australia Council. 1983. The Artist in Australia Today. Sydney: Australia Council.

Throsby, D. 1986. Occupational and Employment Characteristics of Artists. Sydney: Australia Council.

Summary: Australian nationwide survey of practicing professional artists across disciplines. This survey would be duplicated in 1993 (see Australian Practicing Professional Artists [1993]).