Folk Singing Survey: Data

Access Folk is a research project exploring ways to increase and diversify participation in folk singing in England. Like many in the arts, the folk scene is facing hardship because the impacts of covid-19 and the current economic climate are affecting venues, organisers, amateur and professional singers and audience members alike. These issues, combined with the ageing of many of the scene’s key activists, raises questions about how the folk singing scene in England might develop over the coming decades. At University of Sheffield, a team of academic and community partners are looking into the current problems and testing potential solutions. The five-year project (2022-2027) hopes to prompt action to help increase accessibility to folk singing for more diverse populations in England.This submission includes data from a large scale survey which gathered information from folk singers and organisers about their demographics and experiences of folk singing. A PDF overview report gives a top level analysis, and all the sharable data is included in an open access spreadsheet. An additional document provides information about the anonymising process.A new version of the dataset file is being prepared as there are formatting issues with the fileThe survey was approved by the University of Sheffield ethical review process: 051380All the available items arising from the project are available in the Access Folk Collection.<br><br>

《Access Folk》是一项旨在提升英国民间歌唱参与度并丰富参与群体多样性的研究项目。
与诸多艺术领域相仿，英国民间歌唱社群正面临困境：新冠疫情（COVID-19）与当前经济环境的双重影响，波及了演出场地、组织者、业余与专业歌手及观众等所有群体。这些困境叠加社群内众多核心参与者的老龄化问题，引发了人们对未来数十年英国民间歌唱社群将如何发展的思考。
谢菲尔德大学（University of Sheffield）的一支由学界与社区伙伴组成的团队，正针对当前存在的问题展开调研并测试可行的解决方案。这项为期五年（2022-2027）的项目，旨在推动相关行动，助力英国更多元化的群体更便捷地参与民间歌唱活动。
本提交数据集包含一项大规模调研所采集的数据：该调研面向民间歌手与组织者，收集了他们的人口统计学信息及民间歌唱相关经历。数据集附带一份PDF格式的概况报告，提供顶层分析内容；所有可共享的数据均收录于开放获取电子表格中。另有一份文档详细说明了数据匿名化流程。
本调研已通过谢菲尔德大学伦理审查流程，审查编号为051380。本项目产生的全部可公开获取的成果，均收录于《Access Folk》数据集库中。