STREET ARTISTS IN EUROPE - Fondazione Fitzcarraldo

1.2.1.3. Phase 3: Analysis of the data collected
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The consultant team has carried out an assessment of the situation of street artists in Europe by
considering the terms of references of the present call and on the basis of the collected data and
in conformity with the pre-defined criteria in the evaluative questions.
Once the data-gathering phase has been concluded, a key action leading to the final report was
the validation of the available data coming from different sources.
The study is based on a relative extensive reliance on existing information and data produced, at
European and local levels. A certain attention was given to the validation of quantitative data,
from non-EC sources, when estimated pertinent.
Information coming from primary sources (in the form of interviews or questionnaires) has been
examined taking into consideration the socio-political context of the interviewed person,
previous to drawing any final conclusion.
On the basis of the standard evaluation sheet indicators or describers were looked at, sources of
information validated and intermediate results of the analysis produced: focus groups reports,
political and strategic suggestions.
1.2.1.4. Phase 4: Synthesis and recommendations
The last phase was targeting at:
• Detecting and identifying problems, as well as good practices;
• Pinpointing the strengths and weaknesses of the sector;
• Drawing conclusions from the analysis in a final report;
• Formulating, based on these conclusions, policy and operational recommendations that
can be applied in the very short term to remedy the weaknesses identified and improve
the situation;
• Making strategic recommendations that will render it possible in the longer term to
strengthen the forms of artistic expression that are still vulnerable.
The work involved in the study (the questionnaires and interviews, the observation of facts, the
detection and verification of the issues, the recording and validation of the answers, the tests, the
written and oral report) was carried out with rigor and precision, objectivity and clarity,
discretion and confidentiality, transparency and quality.
1.3. Documents and techniques used in data collection
• The primary data was collected by means of a questionnaire sent to the partners and
resource persons of the street arts networks in Europe.
• A panel of information source persons was selected depending on the first census carried
out in the pre-survey. The questionnaire was drafted and tested on a panel of resource
persons and information source persons in the different countries, then sent by regular
mail or e-mail to the directors of structures and festivals and to the professional milieu of
street arts.
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