Summary information

Study title

Festival Barometer 2014-2016

Creator

Kinnunen, Maarit (University of Lapland. Lapland Institute for Tourism Research)

Study number / PID

FSD3324 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3324 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3324 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Festival Barometers

The Festival Barometer was collected for the first time in 2014. The barometer was preceded by a survey that was targeted at the visitors of small festivals in 2013. The Festival Barometer series is collected in a collaboration between festival operators and Finnish universities under the leadership of Maarit Kinnunen. The series is a longitudinal study, which means that data from the same respondent can be combined between data from different years. The Festival Barometers examine the experiences of visitors at music festivals (excluding classical music festivals). The surveys chart...

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Abstract

The festival barometer aims to collect information on Finnish festival visitors and the changes that occur in their taste in music and festivals over the years. This study includes the surveys for the 2014 and 2016 festival barometers. The music festivals examined include Blockfest (Tampere), Flow Festival (Helsinki), Ilosaarirock (Joensuu), Jurassic Rock (Mikkeli), Kuopio RockCock (Kuopio), Pori Jazz, Provinssi (Seinäjoki), Qstock (Oulu), Ruisrock (Turku), Tuska Open Air Metal Festival (Helsinki) and Weekend Festival (Helsinki). The Lapland Institute for Tourism Research participated in conducting both barometers. Additionally, in 2014, the TATU2 project by the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences and the JOHDE II project by the Turku School of Economics and the University of the Arts Helsinki were involved in conducting the barometer. In 2016, the barometer was conducted together with the Seinäjoki Unit of the Sibelius Academy (a unit of the University of the Arts Helsinki). First, the respondents were asked which Finnish festivals they had visited during the past few years and how interesting they thought various Finnish festivals were. Opinions on the general quality of various aspects of the biggest Finnish festivals, such as performers, food and drink services, security, and marketing, were charted. Next, the respondents were asked whether they would attend festivals more often if various preconditions were fulfilled (e.g. if the performers were more interesting, tickets were cheaper, travelling to the festival was easier, cheaper or faster, or more information was available on festivals). Some questions focused on the significance of several aspects for achieving a successful festival experience, for example, positive surprises in performances, diverse food and drink services, clean bathrooms, and the values represented by the festival. The respondents' opinions on how much festival products and services should cost were surveyed next. The products and...
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Methodology

Data collection period

10/2014

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Visitors of the Blockfest (Tampere), Flow Festival (Helsinki), Ilosaarirock (Joensuu), Jurassic Rock (Mikkeli), Kuopio RockCock (Kuopio), Provinssi (Seinäjoki), Qstock (Oulu), Ruisrock (Turku), Tuska Open Air Metal Festival (Helsinki), Weekend Festival (Helsinki) and Pori Jazz (Pori) festivals

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

The dataset is (D) available only by permission from the data depositor/creator.

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