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193 Methodological Appendix a tattooist's work, published a piece on the stigmatized presentation of tattooing by "scientific" analysts in a major tattoo journal, and had a piece included in the catalogue accompanying a major exhibit of tattoo art and photography mounted in Rome. To supplement the data drawn from my direct and intimate participation with the tattoo subculture, I conducted a series of lengthy, semi-structured, tape-recorded interviews with tattoo recipients contacted during the course of the research. I collected interviews with 16 people (10 men and 6 women) who were representative of the sex, age, tattoo experience, and social status categories I encountered in the field settings. Their average age was 24 years (from 17 to 39) and, as a group, they carried 35 tattoos (9 had one, 3 had two, and 4 had three or more). A somewhat more structured body of data was drawn from the four-page questionnaires completed by 163 tattooees contacted in three separate settings. Fifty-six were filled out by tattoo enthusiasts attending the 1984 convention of the National Tattoo Association in Philadelphia, 44 were returned by clients in the "artistic" studio, and 63 respondents completed the questionnaire folloWing their tattoo experience in the street shop in which I initially began to collect field data. Sixty-eight percent of the respondents were men and 32 percent were women. They ranged in ages from 17 to 71 with an average age of 30 years. Sixty-two percent had received some education past high school and 5 percent had graduate degrees. Skilled craftwork, machine operation, and general labor were the most common occupations pursued by the men; service and clerical workers were most heavily represented among the women. Twelve percent of the men and 6 percent of the women were involved in professional or technical occupations (see Figure 5). Although I have a healthy skepticism with regard to the data provided by self-administered questionnaires, I still chose to supplement the qualitative information I had collected by using this mechanism for the follOWing reasons. It provided me with a broader general picture of the people who are tattooed, and there was no systematic body of data numerically representing tattooees in the United States (cf. Dube, 1985). I had little trouble in getting the people in the tattoo shops to fill out the questionnaire, since
194 Methodological Appendix Figure 5: Selected Characteristics oj Tattooees (Questionnaire Respondents. N= 163) Male (N= Ill) Female (N=52) Mean age (years) 27.4 27.7 Occupation (percent) professional/technical 12 6 business manager,bwner official/proprietor 14 4 sales/clerical 1 27 skilled craft 38 19 operative (machlne/vehlcle) 14 4 service 3 10 laborer/unskl1ledldomestlc 12 6 student 4 12 unemployed (Inci. housewife) 1 12 no response 3 0 Income (percent) Total 102' 100 under $6000 7 23 $6000 to $9999 6 19 $10.000 to $14,999 16 21 $15,000 to $19.999 26 15 $20,000 to $24,999 14 4 $25,000 or more 27 10 no response 4 8 Education (percent) Total 100 100 some high school 14 19 high school graduate 27 17 some school after h.s. 37 42 college degree 11 13 some school after college 5 4 graduate degree 7 4 'percentages do not total 100 due to rounding Total lOP 99'
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194 Methodological Appendix<br />
Figure 5: Selected Characteristics oj <strong>Tattoo</strong>ees<br />
(Questionnaire Respondents. N= 163)<br />
Male<br />
(N= Ill)<br />
Female<br />
(N=52)<br />
Mean age (years) 27.4 27.7<br />
Occupation (percent)<br />
professional/technical 12 6<br />
business manager,bwner<br />
official/proprietor 14 4<br />
sales/clerical 1 27<br />
skilled craft 38 19<br />
operative (machlne/vehlcle) 14 4<br />
service 3 10<br />
laborer/unskl1ledldomestlc 12 6<br />
student 4 12<br />
unemployed (Inci. housewife) 1 12<br />
no response 3 0<br />
Income (percent)<br />
Total 102' 100<br />
under $6000 7 23<br />
$6000 to $9999 6 19<br />
$10.000 to $14,999 16 21<br />
$15,000 to $19.999 26 15<br />
$20,000 to $24,999 14 4<br />
$25,000 or more 27 10<br />
no response 4 8<br />
Education (percent)<br />
Total 100 100<br />
some high school 14 19<br />
high school graduate 27 17<br />
some school after h.s. 37 42<br />
college degree 11 13<br />
some school after college 5 4<br />
graduate degree 7 4<br />
'percentages do not total 100 due to rounding<br />
Total lOP 99'
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