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Guidelines for the public use of market and opinion research

This is an effort to state a professional consensus on how market and opinion research for public use should be assessed and what determines how useful, sound, and credible particular research may be in such applications. The guidelines which follow...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

Focus groups

This is the first time the Advertising Research Foundation has issued any document on the role and practice of qualitative research. The present document is offered in the spirit of the ARF mission: 1. “To lead in the development,...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

The first 50 years of the advertising research foundation

"A new organisation to be known as the Advertising Research Foundation was formed at a meeting of advertiser and agency executives held on February 11th at the Union League Club of New York". That’s how the press release from the Association of...

Catalogue: ARF Guidelines Handbook

Author: ARF (Advertising Research Foundation) B.V.

January 1, 1990

BRITAIN

This paper looks at the lessons that have been learned in providing a continuous measurement of tourism in GB in terms of questionnaire design, sampling and analysis. The paper draws on the experience gained by NOP Market Research Ltd in monitoring...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Charles Ilsley

September 15, 1989

Some of the knowledge gained from 10 years experience of advertising monitoring in the building society market in Nordrhein-Westfalen

For 10 years, Infratest has been continuously investigating the relevance of building society advertising for the LBS in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is shown that the question commonly used in such advertising tracking studies is problematic and how...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Rolf Pfleiderer, Gunter Luke

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

September 15, 1989

Sweden

This paper briefly describes a continuous market information system for the travel industry in Sweden and shows various applications and usage possibilities. The paper shows how the system can be used to monitor basic market volumes as number of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Bengt Sahlberg, Par Källeskog

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 15, 1989

Informativeness of product characteristics and their dimensional scaling

The paper presents a new approach to the scaling of market product characteristics. The categories used in information theory are applied to study product characteristics, which are treated as meaningful messages. The market product itself is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Stefan Mynarski

September 15, 1989

Marketing research mirror in corporate communication planning

This paper is founded on the market research carried out by the author in 1987 in the Market Research Centre - Zagreb, for the needs of a specific Yugoslav conglomerate which is involved in the production and processing of zinc, alloys and chemical...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Nenad Porges

September 15, 1989

How to optimize a sales organisation in the financial area

A company in the financial area had developed a special conception of a sales organisation. One main target of this research was to find the correct way of addressing (advertising, head hunting or other methods) for possible candidates for such a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Author: Gisela Stengel-Guettner

September 3, 1989