Resources Library by ANA

Do-it-yourself products for home improvement/repair

This study was, therefore, designed primarily to determine the demographic and socioeconomic profile of do-it-yourselfers. Data obtained from 119 households located in the city of Niagara Falls and suburbs, and analyzed using discriminant analysis...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Author: Venxatakrishna V. BeIlur

June 15, 1984

Fully interactive media planning model

This new model called: "Sherlock" is smart, speedy interactive. It really helps the media planner to find out the convenient plan. The time required for an evaluation is less than three seconds. For an optimisation it varies from some seconds to some...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Authors: Henri Bergonier, Jean-Pierre Vignolle, Denis Harang

June 15, 1984

Consumer durables

This paper compares actual consumer budget priorities to predictions from the value priority model. The actual consumer budgets are obtained via personal interviews in which consumers are asked to indicate which durable goods they plan to purchase in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Authors: Glen L. Urban, John R. Hause

June 15, 1984

A state-of-the-art eye movement research

Eye movement research has been used in Marketing Research for many years. However, recent advancements in fiber optics, digital processing and advanced electronics have made possible giant steps forward from the old days of "eye cameras". Burke...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Lynn Y.S. Lin, Par Källeskog, Nick Calo

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1984

A programme of business research across Europe, with critical decisions on capital investment and marketing activity dependent on the results

The brief for this research project came from the Brussels based product manager responsible for commercial stationery products. A new commercial product had been launched with great success in the USA in 1980 and then gradually released to Europe,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Authors: Roy Haworth, Margaret Holmes

June 15, 1984

Television audience research in Europe

The paper takes a non-specialist view of television audience measurement in Europe, from the standpoint of a major user group, manufacturing companies and their advertising agencies. It suggests the growing inadequacy of traditional audience research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Author: Charles C. Dawson

June 15, 1984

The 'ombudsman' for children: The needs of young consumers

The paper describes how information about the needs of children must be communicated to planners, policy makers, as well as to groups that produce and market products designed for - or used by- children. If information and communication prove...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Marketing To Children And Young Consumer

Author: Maalfrid Grude Flekkoy

June 15, 1984

New qualitative studies

The world economic crisis has had fundamental repercussions on marketing and qualitative studies. The need for exactitude and the increased culture of economic actors have resulted, to a certain extent, in the breakdown of the barrier which existed...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1984: What We Have Learned From The Recession

Author: Pascal Fleury

June 15, 1984

Problems in the use of rating scales in cross-cultural research

This paper addresses the problems associated with using rating scale techniques in cross-cultural research. The objective of the study was to assess which of four types of rating scale (verbal, numerical, visual and graphic line) was the most...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Author: Pat van der Reis

June 15, 1984