Survey Methodology
Extending a series initiated in 1973 for its first edition, then continued in 1981, 1988, 1997 and 2008, the cultural practices survey was renewed for a sixth edition in 2018.
The survey system has remained very stable over the six editions:
- questionnaires very similar in content with some questions whose wording has remained unchanged over time,
- sounding a representative sample of the population of metropolitan France aged 15 and over,
- stratified sample by regions and categories of agglomeration,
- interrogation in face to face at the respondent’s home.
In contrast, the sample size varied from survey to survey:
- 2000 people in 1973
- 3 900 persons in 1981
- 5000 persons in 1989
- 3 000 persons in 1997
- 5 000 people in 2008
- 9 200 people in 2018
The 2018 survey was randomly drawn from a dwelling frame while the quota method was used for the first 5 editions.
The following table shows the structure of the six samples (for rounding purposes, some totals may differ slightly from the sum of their components).
STRUCTURE OF SURVEY SAMPLES
1973 | 1981 | 1988 | 1997 | 2008 | 2018 | |
Persons aged 15 and over residing in France | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Age | ||||||
15-19 years | 10 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 5 |
20-24 years | 10 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 4 |
25-39 years | 27 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 26 | 18 |
40-59 years | 30 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 31 | 32 |
60 years and over | 23 | 20 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 40 |
Sex | ||||||
Men | 46 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 45 |
Women | 54 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 55 |
Degree level | ||||||
No diploma or CEP | 54 | 43 | 40 | 35 | 23 | 17 |
Patent or CAP | 27 | 33 | 34 | 33 | 34 | 31 |
Bac or equivalent | 10 | 12 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 18 |
Graduate studies | 7 | 9 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 33 |
Socio-professional category | ||||||
Executives | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 10 |
Intermediate occupations | 7 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 13 |
Employees and blue-collar workers | 27 | 29 | 28 | 31 | 36 | 22 |
Others (including students and men/housewives) | 63 | 58 | 55 | 53 | 44 | 55 |
Place of residence | ||||||
Rural commune | 21 | 18 | 27 | 26 | 24 | 23 |
Less than 20,000 population | 21 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 21 |
20,000 to 100,000 population | 18 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 |
Over 100,000 inhabitants | 18 | 31 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
Intramural Paris | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Rest of the Paris area | 12 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 9 |
Source: Cultural Practices Surveys, 1973-2018 - DEPS Ministry of Culture
Download the questionnaires of the 6 editions
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