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Perspectives of the building society market

For our initial evaluation we undertook a discriminant analysis to see if the age groups varied from one another with respect to attitudes towards living. The main objective of this phase was to compare the attitudes of the respondents towards living...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Bruno Hötzel

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

June 15, 1982

The influence of poster size on recognition scores

Due to the fact that advertising for tobacco goods was banned from Austrian TV, the Austrian Tobacco Company (Osterreichische Tabakregie) was forced to carry out its advertising campaigns predominantly by posters. This study is a result of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Hubert Kucera

Company: Unabhängiges Meinungsforschungsinstitut INFO GmbH

June 15, 1982

Changing economic conditions in turbulent times

The evaluation of price expectations in consumer sentiment surveys is rather ambiguous. Time series in price expectations and time to buy from our continuous research in this field show that as long as prices can go up and can come down, people will...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Wim J. de Jonge

Company: NIPO

June 15, 1982

Changing public attitudes towards noise abatement and non-smoking

In the course of the past decade, the Dutch government has come to play an increasingly active role with respect to changing attitudes of the Dutch public-at-large. The initiatives for attitude-influencing campaigns came from Ministries and from...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Frits Spangenberg

June 15, 1982

How to overcome the recession?

In this contribution we investigate the dynamics in the population of enterprises. Enterprises are established or taken over, expand or suffer cut-backs. The result of the development of all these individual firms is the economic change which...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Dirk Huisman

Company: SKIM

June 15, 1982

Determining optimum pricing in closed universe prediction panels

The examples in this paper are drawn from one example of 'closed universe panels' ie. Sharescale Panels, which are set up on an ad hoc basis to measure particular product fields, usually to test the effect that a new brand might have in that field....

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Author: John Parfitt

June 15, 1982

Using long-term studies in marketing planning

According to Kotler planning means "to decide at the present time what needs to be done in the future." Marketing planning forms part of the overall planning of an enterprise. The marketing-mix being a combination of various kinds of marketing...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Walter Tacke

June 15, 1982

A climate of doom

Intrigued by many references to a possible climate of doom in the Netherlands and a lack of social research related to this subject, the Nederlandse Stichting voor Statistiek (NSS) undertook a study of this phenomenon. Based upon the research it was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Arnold de Vos

June 15, 1982

The consumer and the policy-maker

The first study discussed was undertaken by Consumers' Association (CA) on behalf of the Environment and Consumer Protection Service of the EEC. This was essentially a small-scale methodological exercise, CA's brief being to recommend to the EEC a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Authors: Michael Warren, David Yelding, Antony Keith

June 15, 1982