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The outlook for publishing in Europe

In the field of publishing, an important process of structural change has taken place since the beginning of the seventies. This restructuring process was largely caused by the development of consumer behaviour, which was especially strongly...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Rudolf W. Boos

June 15, 1981

Internal communications within Dunlop

The paper reports on the findings of a survey undertaken among a UK based sample of Dunlop employees with a view to evaluating internal communications within the company. The specific objectives of the survey were to discover: 1) Attitudes towards...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1981: From Advertising To Communication Research

Author: Kingston P. Pratt

June 15, 1981

Industrial sampling

There is no doubt that the quality or rather the reliability with which findings of any type of market research can be translated into practical use, is heavily dependent on the final sample that has been obtained. The sample directly deriving from...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Robert J. Stegeman

May 1, 1981

Optimising newspaper sales

This paper is an introduction to the philosophy of supply control systems to optimise newspaper and magazine sales. The construction of the system was started in 1972 as a cooperation between the management of sales and distribution and the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Ivan Biangslev

May 1, 1981

Rare target groups

Finding samples representing segments of the general population when the rate of strike (percentage of the segment in total population) is inferior to 20%, is becoming a common performance asked from the practitioner by client marketing companies....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Alain Zwilling

May 1, 1981

Conducting research amongst small sectors of consumer markets

This paper discusses a problem that is frequently encountered in consumer market research. It is the requirement to obtain 'usable' samples of small minority market sectors where cost and time constraints exist. The author has not found the answer to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

May 1, 1981

European panel on car repair

The problem I am going to present you regards a study which has contributed to solve a major problem of the client, a car manufacturer, and which has engaged our institute in a new area of technical development, quite unusual as compared with the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Alberto Colussi

May 1, 1981

Problems of sampling, interviewing and grossing procedures for large-scale representative surveys in industrial markets

This paper reviews the main problems and their character and presents examples of the way they have been tackled by Industrial Market Research by means of case study. Specifically we address the problems of: 1. universe definition; 2. sample design;...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Authors: Bryan E. Atkin, Tore Moritz Larsen

May 1, 1981

Sampling businessmen

This paper reviews the sampling and fieldwork techniques of five Businessman Readership Surveys conducted in the UK during 1973-1980. It's objective is to present in outline, and discuss, the sampling approaches designed for surveying a "large"...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Erhard Meier

May 1, 1981