Cultural Consumption and Resources within Roma Communities: A Pilot Study in the county of Ilfov [2011]

The study carried out by the Centre for Studies and Research in the Field of Culture at the request of the Roma National Cultural Centre had as objective the drawing-up of a methodology to identify and quantify the dimensions of the cultural resources and cultural consumption within the Roma communities from 33 localities of the county of Ilfov.

For this purpose, 120 interviews were conducted among Roma people belonging to all age-categories and other 39 interviews with the representatives of the local administration.

The results pertained to issues related to prospects, such as creating programmes for the traditional Roma crafts, creating new methods of production and distribution of the products, integrating the Roma cultural products into the international network, as well as to expectations related to the minority mass media.