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Qualitative research and motivation research

Qualitative research is usually exploratory or diagnostic. It involves small numbers of people who are not sampled on a probabilistic basis. They may. however, be selected to represent different categories of people from a given target market or...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: Peter Sampson
August 1, 1986

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Packaging research

Packaging is the key vehicle in the passage of many products from the manufactured state to the point of consumption. At the very least, it has to: contain the product physically; protect it from contamination or degradation; stand up to...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Authors: William Schlackman, David Chittenden
August 1, 1986

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Statistics and significance testing

In this chapter, the emphasis will be on the ‘analysis and interpretation’ aspects of statistics dealing mainly with simple descriptive measures calculated from survey data and the testing of hypotheses about those data. The more advanced...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: Paul Harris
August 1, 1986

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Television media research

This chapter concentrates upon research to measure television audiences in relation to the use of television as an advertising medium. The general principles of audience research discussed here also apply to the measurement of programme audiences and...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: Tony Twyman
August 1, 1986

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Sampling

This chapter sets out to explain the concepts behind the use of sampling in market research. It outlines some of the main options available to the survey designer and discusses the way sampling is carried out in practice. More complex topics are only...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: Martin Alan Collins
August 1, 1986

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Segmenting and constructing markets

The purpose of this chapter is to provide an outline of some prominent issues in the area. There is particular emphasis upon marketing considerations and applications. The marketing man can be faced nowadays with bewildering volumes of data, gathered...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: Tony Lunn
August 1, 1986

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Introduction

The role of market research is to make marketing operations more efficient and profitable, by improving the quality of planning and decision taking. This is the only way in which market research can justify itself. The following chapters, therefore,...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Author: John Downham
August 1, 1986

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Market modelling

Modelling is a diverse and complex area. It is also a controversial one. For more than two decades, researchers have developed and adapted models of widely differing kinds, ranging from econometric systems designed to forecast changes at the global...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Authors: Chris Blamires, David Seaman, Tony Lunn
August 1, 1986

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Market research in the financial field

Financial market research covers two main types of work: (a) Survey research tor financial institutions among audiences of relevance to them. This includes surveys among customers, both personal and corporate, and potential customers of banks,...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook
Authors: John F. Swift, Roger J. Stubbs
August 1, 1986