Study of French Actors (1994)

Investigator: Pierre-Michel Menger, Centre de Sociologie des Arts, for the French Ministry of Culture and Communication’s Department of Research and Planning.

Population: Professional actors working in France.

Identification method: Names of 11,849 actors were received from la Caisse des congés spectacles, an employers’ organization.

Sampling procedure: The employers’ organization contacted the actors to explain the study and request their participation. A representative sample of 993 was selected from among those who agreed to participate.

N and Response rate: N=993; response rate not readily calculable from information available.

Publication: Menger, Pierre-Michel. La Profession de Comédien: Formations, activités et carrières dans la démultiplication de soi. Paris: Ministère de la Culture et de la Commmunication, DAG, Département des études et de la prospective, 1997.