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A fuel usage panel

This paper describes the UK Electricity Council's use of panel research techniques for load forecasting and energy marketing. In particular it details how panel data are used to help in forecasting the shape of the domestic component of electricity...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Margaret Clarke, Jonathan Jephcott

June 15, 1982

Practical use of consumer panels

The paper provides a comparison of some aspects of Consumer panel operations in Canada and the United States with those in Europe. The main difference is the method of recruitment, the use of mail and telephone in North America compared with personal...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Ivor McGloughlin, Jim Lockyear

June 15, 1982

Product/assortment policy from the point of view of manufacturers and retailers, based on a special analysis

The conflict of targets between manufacturers and traders with regard to the product-line to be carried is already existing as long as there are dealers selling merchandise produced by somebody else, the producers. This target cannot be solved even...

Catalogue: Paper 1982: Profitable Cooperation Of Manufactures And Retailers

Author: Manfred Lange

June 15, 1982

Slow to moderate economic growth prospects in advanced industrial countries

In the first part, the various possible physical constraints on economic growth are analysed The conclusion is that there are no absolute physical limits to food production and that there is no universal or absolute physical scarcity of raw...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Laszlo Unger

Company: Givaudan

June 15, 1982

Using social surveys for prediction

This paper illustrates some of the ways in which sample survey data can be used to make predictions about aspects of society. It examines the use of data from continuous surveys to make short term predictions based on time series and the use of...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Frank E. Whitehead

June 15, 1982

The personalisation of the institution in order to establish the images of the major British banks

This paper describes the experimental application to the identification of bank images of a technique previously used to differentiate between consumer goods such as lagers and perfumes where differences were subtle. The approach is based on the use...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: John F. Swift

June 15, 1982

The pessimism with technology

Based on systematic typology analyses, seven clearly defined types of attitudes towards technology today and in the future were elaborated. A negative attitude towards technology is not an attitude that is widely distributed. Individual groups...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Claus Merbold

June 15, 1982

The evaluation of the psycho-sociological and socio-cultural approach in the elaboration of the marketing policy followed by the Credit Lyonnais in the 70s (French)

In response to the far-reaching changes that have occurred in the banking industry since the early 1960s, we were led to resort to sophisticated research, constantly broadening the field of factors brought in to explain our customers' behaviour In...

Catalogue: EFMA/ESOMAR Seminar 1982: How Research Can Help Financial Organisations Communicate Internally And Externally

Author: Bernard Sue

June 15, 1982

The future of television audience measurement in Europe

The objects of this paper are firstly to consider the key elements associated with the choice of research techniques (Section 2) and then to examine the recent changes taking place and their effects on consumer choice of broadcast material and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Stephan Buck

June 15, 1982