Study of Jazz Artists 2001
The Study of Jazz Artists 2001 collected data on the working and living situations of jazz musicians in four cities -- New York, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Detroit. In each city, two surveys were conducted:
- A conventional random sample of musicians belonging to the American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
- A "respondent-driven sample" (RDS) of jazz musicians, using a new form of chain-referral sampling developed by Cornell University sociologist Douglas Heckathorn
A total of 1,963 musicians were interviewed in the AFM survey, and 733 musicians were interviewed in the RDS survey.
The study was conducted by the Research Center for Arts and Culture (RCAC) (http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/rcac) at Columbia University under a cooperative agreement with the National Endowment for the Arts (http://www.nea.gov/) and the San Francisco Study Center (http://www.studycenter.org/). RCAC sponsors research on artists, arts participation, management, education, and cultural policy, with the aim to provide information about the arts sector to a broad base of constituents. For more information on the Study of Jazz Artists 2001, see Changing the Beat: A Study of the Worklife of Jazz Musicians, available from the National Endowment for the Arts as NEA Research Division Report #43 (http://www.nea.gov/research/ResearchReports.html).
The data from the study are archived at: