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Postal contact

Lack of information and an absence of objectively critical opinions from sociologists and marketing men have led to the present situation whereby personal contact is canonised and used as a criterion of the validity of postal contact. Referring to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Hakan K. E. Karlsson

June 15, 1968

The revolution in test marketing

The presentation focuses on the use of marketing experimental techniques by most of the Major United States grocery and drug product companies. It will be based on over 100 marketing experiments and simulations. fhree significant improvements in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: David Harding

June 15, 1968

Infrastructure for the collection of data without coding (French)

The swift adaptation of digital computer programs and languages to public opinion poll data processing has revolutionized the working methods of market research firms. However, while the data processing methods have undergone radical changes, the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Theodore Tatarczuk

June 15, 1968

Experiments in merging surveys (French)

When the results of two surveys based on various samples are to be used simultaneously, a merged file will be generated by grouping individuals from both origins, according to certain criteria. If the explained variables (behavioural), special to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Jean-François Boss

June 15, 1968

Problems in communicating the results of market segmentation studies

Segmented marketing is likely to replace traditional mass marketing techniques in many product fields in the future. This development will involve market researchers more frequently in what are usually described as market segmentation studies. Yet...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Authors: Jacqueline Twigg, Alan Wolfe

Company: Ogilvy

June 15, 1968

The Daphne language and its use in market studies

DAPHNE is a programming language for file analysis. Most of the operations currently used in file analysis can be easily programmed in DAPHNE. Among these operations are percentages, valuation, selection, editing and output of the results. This paper...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Authors: G. Letellier, P. Mathelot

June 15, 1968

Decline in the status of household decision-making

This paper presents a theory of change in household decision-making. The general contention is that household decisions are a function of family and social organisation. Over the last few decades family organisation has undergone and is continuing to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

June 15, 1968

Consistency of purchasing and television viewing behaviour optimum periods for study

The correlation that may exist between advertising pressure and effectiveness can be expressed as a response function for marketing purposes, perhaps the most interesting relationship is that which may exist between media exposure and sales, and it...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Authors: Michael J. West, Stephan Buck

June 15, 1968

Possibilities and problems of cumulated surveys (German)

Conventional data analysis concentrates on individual surveys of not more than 2000 respondents. Hypotheses regarding small sub-groups of the population cannot be tested with these surveys. Special surveys with disproportionate samples or with a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Authors: Hans Dieter Klingemann, Franz Urban Pappi

June 15, 1968