The Artists Enquette (1974)

Other Studies of Multiple Artist Populations

Investigators: The 'Institute fur Projektstudien' by order of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

Population: Artists as defined by the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Musicians, and performing and visual artists were considered 'professionals' if they earned more than 50 percent of their living through art-related activities.

Identification method: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed. (Sociological Abstracts AN81L2272 and AN81L2273.)

Sampling procedure: Unavailable in secondary source reviewed.

N and Response rate: N=3000+. Response rate unavailable in works reviewed.

Publication: Fohrbeck, Karla and Andreas J. Wiesand. 1974. "Zum Berufsbild der Kulturberufe. Vorergebnisse der Kunstler-Enquete". Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. Special issue 17, 309-325.

Fohrbeck, Karla and Andreas J. Wiesand. 1974. "Zur beruflichen Situation von Autoren aus den Ergebnissen der Autoren-Enquete." Special issue 17, 45-67.

Summary: The 'Artists' Enquete' was designed to cover a wide field of vocational and social problems of the cultural professions in Germany. The Enquete was a multistage research project, based mainly on personal interviews with over 100 questions asked during interviews lasting about 1.5 hours.