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survey background Introduction & Survey Methodology This Sector Study was commissioned by the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), the representative body for the architectural profession at European level, whose Members are the national representative and regulatory bodies of the profession in all EU Member States, Accession States, Norway and Switzerland. It is the first comprehensive Study of the architectural profession carried out in Europe. All 32 countries from which the ACE drew its membership at the time of the study in 2008 were invited to participate and 17 countries fully participated. Additionally, several other countries, who had recently
carried out national studies, shared the results of those studies with the ACE and hence could also be considered. It was with the direct cooperation of the Member Organisations of the ACE that it was possible to carry out the Study and the results obtained belong to them and to the ACE. Given the complexity of this undertaking, the Study was carried out in a number of phases as described here below. Phase I of this research was conducted by the ACE in 2007. The method was to gather information by way of a written questionnaire sent to Member Organisations. Twenty countries
TABLE A-1 On-line survey response (Phase II) respondents to architect survey
respondents to principal survey
total number of replies
total contacted by email
response rate, %
Austria
0
160
160
526
30
Belgium
96
222
318
2101
15
Denmark
130
29
159
850
19
Estonia
8
17
25
70
36
Finland
146
57
203
344
59
France
30
112
142
1500
9
1375
2085
3460
12000
29
Greece
147
247
394
1700
23
Ireland
78
69
147
410
36
Luxembourg
14
61
75
543
14
Malta
61
34
95
400
24
Germany
Netherlands
27
91
118
1167
10
202
405
607
3070
20
Slovenia
42
54
96
688
14
Sweden
267
96
363
1188
31
Turkey
893
701
1594
15981
10
92
35
127
1450
9
3608
4475
8083
43988
18
Romania
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