American Perceptions of Artists Survey 2002 (ICPSR 35571)

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The American Perceptions of Artists Survey 2002 consists of a national sample of 1,000 telephone interviews with adults, aged 18 or older, living in the continental United States, and local samples of about 500 adults in each of nine U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. At least 10 attempts were made to contact every sampled telephone number. Calls were staggered over times of day and days of the week to maximize the chance of making contact with potential respondents. Each household received at least one daytime call in an attempt to find someone at home. Spanish language interviewing was offered in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York. Princeton Survey Research Associates International conducted the interviews from May 21 to August 18, 2002.

The number of respondents for each sample is as follows:

• Aggregate: 5,507
• National: 1,000
• Boston metropolitan statistical area: 500
• Chicago metropolitan statistical area: 502
• Cleveland metropolitan statistical area: 500
• Houston metropolitan statistical area: 500
• Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area: 504
• New York metropolitan statistical area: 501
• San Francisco metropolitan statistical area: 500
• Seattle metropolitan statistical area: 500
• Washington, DC metropolitan statistical area: 500

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This survey used random samples constructed by list-assisted random digit dialing (RDD). Eligible respondents were adults aged 18 or older. Interviewers asked to speak with the "youngest male, 18 years of age or older, who is now at home." If there was no eligible male at home, interviewers asked to speak with "the oldest female, 18 years of age or older, who is now at home." This systematic respondent selection technique has been shown to produce samples that closely mirror the population in terms of age and gender.

The margin of sampling error for the national sample is plus or minus three percentage points for results based on total sample. The margin of sampling error for each of the nine city samples is plus or minus five percentage points.

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Adults in telephone households in the continental United States.

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This data collection contains variables about background on arts attitudes, personal contact with and perceptions of artists, participation in arts activities, support for artists, weights, and administrative and demographic information.

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For each sample, the response rate was calculated by taking the product of three component rates: contact rate -- the proportion of working numbers where a request for interview was made; cooperation rate -- the proportion of contacted numbers where a consent for interview was at least initially obtained and; completion rate -- the proportion of initially cooperating and eligible interviews that were completed. The rate formula used by PSRAI is consistent with the American Association for Public Opinion Research standards. The response rate for the national survey was 37.1 percent. Response rates for city samples were as follows:

• Boston: 34.9 percent
• Chicago: 31.4 percent
• Cleveland: 32.7 percent
• Houston: 32.5 percent
• Los Angeles: 33.2 percent
• New York: 35.0 percent
• San Francisco: 34.5 percent
• Seattle: 37.4 percent
• Washington, D.C.: 37.5 percent

The rate formula used by PSRAI is consistent with the American Association for Public Opinion Research standards.

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2015-05-31

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The national sample was weighted to match national parameters for sex, age, education, race, Hispanic origin and region (U.S. Census definitions). These parameters came from a special analysis of the March 2001 Current Population Survey (CPS) that included all households in the continental United States that had a telephone. The city samples were also weighted to match parameters based on 2000 Census of the Population and Housing. A final adjustment was made to the city sample weight to put all the cities in their proper proportions relative to one another.

Weighting was accomplished using Sample Balancing, a special iterative sample weighting program that simultaneously balances the distributions of all variables using a statistical technique called the Deming Algorithm. Finally, weights were trimmed to prevent individual interviews from having too much influence on the final results. The use of these weights in statistical analysis ensures that the demographic characteristics of the sample closely approximate the demographic characteristics of the population.

Each dataset contains three weight variables: a national weight, a city weight and an overall weight. The variable called WEIGHT is the default weight for each dataset. See the following weight variable naming conventions.

DS1 American Perceptions of Artists Survey 2002 [Aggregate File] contains:

• WEIGHT - Weight
• CITYWT - City weight
• NATWT - National weight

DS2 American Perceptions of Artists Survey 2002 [National Sample] contains:

• WEIGHT - National weight
• CITYWT - City weight
• WGHTALL - Weight

DS3 through DS11, which represent individual cities contain:

• WEIGHT - City weight
• NATWT - National weight
• WGHTALL - Weight