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Opinion polling viewed by a late starter

The author draw from his experience that opinion polling is part of the main-stream of market research, not a seapart methodology. The remaining sections of this paper deal with his view on both technical and non-technical problems that have arisen...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

August 1, 1975

The British motorist and the oil crisis

This paper describes how motorists in the United Kingdom reacted to a series of events following the Arabs-Israeli war of 1973. These events include petrol shortages, both threatened and actual, appeals to save fuel in the national interest, both...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: David Lowe-Watson

August 1, 1975

The experiment near-gratis-fare

To what extent can drivers of private cars be won over to local public transport by cheap fares during the rush hour! Answering this question was the main task of the experiment NEAR-GRATIS-FARE. During the course of nine months, approximately 10.000...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Dieter Franke

August 1, 1975

Personal saving and social trends in Great Britain 1973-1974

This paper demonstrates, by reference to the Taylor Nelson MONITOR of Social Trends: 1. That savings and investment behaviour shows the same lack of rationality as other consumer behaviour; 2. that socio-economic variations are different from those...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: T. Punt

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

August 1, 1975

Researching the effects of out of stock

This paper considers the reaction of retailers and manufacturers to economic constraint and in turn the reaction of consumers to these reactions.

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Author: David Walters

August 1, 1975

Evaluating an ongoing income maintenance programme

A secondary analysis of an unemployment survey in Toronto was conducted for the Canadian Unemployment Insurance Commission. (U.I.C.).The survey was of particular interest to the U.I.C. because it provided data on financial adjustment and job search...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Bernard Portis

August 1, 1975

An assortment-index in a comprehensive shopping model

In retail management a distinction is made between controllable tools of adaptation (e.g., price, personal selling, channels of distribution, and location) and non-controllable environmental aspects (e.g., demand, competition, structure of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Product Range Policy In Retailing And Co-operation With Manufacturers

Authors: A. A. Ruitenberg, Leonardus Hendrik Klaassen

August 1, 1975

Tailor-made panels combining the advantages of ad-hoc survey and consumer panel methods

This paper is concerned with purchasing or usage panels specially set up for a distinct period of time and usually to measure only one product, i.e. "tailor-made" panels. It examines the circumstances in which such panels are likely to be used, some...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: John Parfitt

August 1, 1975

Research quality

The object of this contribution is to demonstrate how the quality of market and opinion research is controlled by court decisions.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Thomas Marcotty

August 1, 1975