The Street arts publics in Europe
![Floriane Gaber](https://www.fizz.it/sites/default/files/imagecache/imgc_iconcina/immagini/foto_autori/gaber.jpg "Floriane Gaber è giornalista e ricercatrice e si è occupata di street performances per molti anni. E' responsabile del Street performances Research Center all'Università di Paris III ed è direttore editoriale della rivista "Rues de l’Université".")
The nine festivals brought together in the Eunetstar network commissioned a survey that permitted them to become more familiar with the characteristics of their audiences from the sociodemographic viewpoint and that of cultural practices, as well as their attitude towards street shows.
Under the scientific aegis of Jean-Michel Guy, a research engineer at the Studies and Prospectives Department of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (Paris), who wrote the questionnaire and protocol, the survey was conducted during the summer of 2004. Floriane Gaber was in charge of general co-ordination. Sirom designed and created the software for data entry and processing the data collected; In Numeri established the simple tabulations and typologies.
Information collection was done through face-to-face interviews, between the interviewer and the person questioned. The total number of interviews desired was 1,000 people per festival (at the least 800 if, for economic or feasibility reasons, it was impossible to collect 1,000). The sample type had to be as random as possible, the interviewers not "choosing" people to query, but the interviewees had to be 15 years or older. The length of each interview was not to exceed 10 minutes.
