Jargon Buster
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- Age group or age categories
- Ancillary income
- Annotations, accreditations and referencing
- Area profiles or area profile reports
- Associate attender
- Attender
- Audience potential
- Average
- Average daily attendance
- Average price paid
- Average rate of attendance
- Average spend per head
- Booker
- Booking
- Capacity
- Catchment area or core catchment
- Caveats and qualifications
- Churn
- Commas (numeric)
- Complimentary or comp
- Concession
- Core catchment
- Core income or core turnover
- Data capture rate
- Data or customer reference date
- Demographic profile
- Discount and percentage discount
- Door sale
- Drivetime or isochrone
- Economic impact
- Event
- Family
- Financial capacity
- Footfall
- Frequency
- Frequent
- Geoanalysis, geodemography and geodemographic profile
- Gratuity
- Gross income
- Group
- Hotspot
- Index or comparative index
- Isochrone
- Lapsed
- Local resident and local community
- Loyalty scheme
- Margin for sampling error
- Market potential
- Marketing spend per attender
- Mean or arithmetic mean
- Median
- Members or membership scheme
- Mode
- Model data
- Net income
- No show
- Occasional
- Occupancy
- Pareto effect or pareto principle
- Party
- Penetration
- Percentage
- Percentage capacity and percentage occupancy
- Percentage change
- Population
- Potential audience
- Proportion
- Rate of attendance
- Regular
- Research objective
- Reservation
- Response rate
- Robust
- Sales promotion
- Sample
- Sample size
- Segmentation
- Series or run
- Social grade
- Subscriber
- Subscription or subscription discount
- Subsidy per head
- Tourist or visitor
- Transaction
- Transaction total, total income per transaction or total transaction value
- Unpaid reservation
- Visitor
- Year
- Yield per attender or average yield per attender
- Young person
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- Local resident and local community
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- Loyalty scheme
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- Percentage change
- A quantified… Read more about Percentage change
- Drivetime or isochrone
- One way of defining… Read more about Drivetime or isochrone
- Yield per attender or average yield per attender
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Year
A 12-month period within an arts facility’s operation.
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Yield per attender or average yield per attender
The mean gross income generated per paying attender from an event or activity for the legal entity holding the financial interest in that event.
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Young person
Someone who is not a legal adult, and thus should be treated as a minor.