TY - JOUR

T1 - Entrance fees as a subjective barrier to visiting museums

AU - Kirchberg, Volker

PY - 1998

Y1 - 1998

N2 - In a 1995 representative survey, 1,080 Germans were asked by standardized questionnaire to assess the subjective significance of 23 motives and barriers to visiting art museums, history museums and technology museums on a scale from 1 (very unimportant motive/barrier) to 5 (very important motive/barrier). An analysis of the results of the survey revealed entrance fees to be the only significant subjective barrier. In contrast to recent price elasticity studies of cultural demand, this study uses a micro-level approach - comparing individual socioeconomic and geographic characteristics with individual and subjective assessments of museum entrance fees as a barrier. The results of an ordered-probit analysis suggest income to be the only significant individual characteristic which can explain this subjective assessment. However, using correspondence analysis, several other individual characteristics such as education and professional status also appear to have a relative impact on the subjective assessment of entrance fees. © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

AB - In a 1995 representative survey, 1,080 Germans were asked by standardized questionnaire to assess the subjective significance of 23 motives and barriers to visiting art museums, history museums and technology museums on a scale from 1 (very unimportant motive/barrier) to 5 (very important motive/barrier). An analysis of the results of the survey revealed entrance fees to be the only significant subjective barrier. In contrast to recent price elasticity studies of cultural demand, this study uses a micro-level approach - comparing individual socioeconomic and geographic characteristics with individual and subjective assessments of museum entrance fees as a barrier. The results of an ordered-probit analysis suggest income to be the only significant individual characteristic which can explain this subjective assessment. However, using correspondence analysis, several other individual characteristics such as education and professional status also appear to have a relative impact on the subjective assessment of entrance fees. © 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

KW - Correspondence analysis

KW - Entrance fee assessment

KW - Income and price elasticity of demand

KW - Micro-level analysis

KW - Museum visits

KW - Ordered-probit analysis

KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization

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U2 - 10.1023/A:1007452808105

DO - 10.1023/A:1007452808105

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:54649083547

VL - 22

SP - 1

EP - 13

JO - Journal of Cultural Economics

JF - Journal of Cultural Economics

SN - 0885-2545

IS - 1

ER -