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The evolution of the market researcher (German)

This paper shows the development and the volume of market research in a "biogram". This type of graph is commonly used in evolutionary theory and visualises how long it took a species or a profession, for that matter to reach the present state...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Werner Wyss

Company: SCOPE Qualitative Research AG

August 1, 1975

The IJF-Questionnaire (German)

For more than 5 years, - since existence of the Institut fur Jugendforschung (IJF), Munich, - IJF has been using a questionnaire system which has demonstrated considerable advantages compared with customary opinion poll procedures, as regards costs,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Kurt H. Benz, Detlef Rlemer

August 1, 1975

A case study illustrating the John Gordon approach

The food trade in the Netherlands tries to make food distribution more efficient by introducing shelf space allocation systems and re-stocking systems. Systems were developed, some focus primarily at shelf allocation, others at re-stocking. Wrong...

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

Author: Albert F. Veldkamp

Company: Heineken

August 1, 1975

A method for improving the results of primary investigation by including the reasons for non-response in sample design and weighting

For years now, one has been able to note ever decreasing rates of exhaustiveness in random surveys. The decrease in exhaustiveness is mainly a phenomenon of the respondents, caused by continually increasing inclination towards non-response. Up to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Christian von der Heyde

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

August 1, 1975

When is enough, enough?

Much of the research effort so far undertaken in the tourism field by destination countries/areas has been directed towards establishing the type of people who visit the destination and the factors which influence their choice. This information is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Gillian Gardner-Smith

August 1, 1975

Where does quality in research begin?

The main premise put forth in this paper is that most problems related to research quality in fact come from within the profession. As a result, the research profession must accept total responsibility for research which is less than top quality. The...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: David Smith

Company: Molson Coors

August 1, 1975

Family buying decisions

This paper will look on the different ways people come to their purchasing decision if they live in multi-person households. We show this, in a study with 155 of such households and 1239 persons aged over 10 living in it, a survey sponsored by DAS...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Ernst Braunschweig

August 1, 1975

How to improve the quality of research?

Quality is not a property in itself. It can be stated that quality is always related to costs. This is the reason why one could speak about the quality-cost-complex. Both factors are interrelated. Better research designs or bigger samples or both...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Lies Deggeller, Benno Stoppelman

August 1, 1975

How to reward interviews (French)

The carrying out of this research has a double origin: 1. A general purpose with a deontological characteristic Market surveys are based on information given by the interviewed people who accept to provide it. It appears as rather unfair that these...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: François Frisch, Patrick Le Maire

August 1, 1975