Resources Library by ANA

The use of criteria rating and customer role play as an aid to problem definition

A multi-disciplinary group was asked to place itself in the position of each customer class and, without reference to the candidate product, derive a list of criteria by which they would judge the value of a chemical mower. They were then asked,...

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

Author: Ian Donald Farquharson

Company: Shell Global

June 15, 1984

The outlook on life of german youth

The basis of this paper is a qualitative study on the topic of feelings towards life of German youth. Youth are obviously at the same time a widely discussed and a poorly understood subject; at least there are too many, too conflicting, too ambiguous...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Marketing To Children And Young Consumer

Author: Manfred Schillinger

June 15, 1984

Computer assisted questionnaire design

For the average Market Research company the most significant developments for the future follow on from the application of computers to questionnaire design, the subject of this paper. This has quite dramatic implications for improving efficiency,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Author: Peter Jackling

June 15, 1984

MediLink

During the Spring and Summer of 1983 Medilink set up a pilot medical market research operation, involving ten London practices, followed by a larger test market of 50 practices. In April 1984 Medilink expanded the panel to be a national panel of 150...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Author: Peter Barton

June 15, 1984

The use of postal questionnaire measures in international research

This paper will use material from three studies to demonstrate that, even at low levels of participation, postal surveys can be used for rapid and reliable feedback.

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

Author: Allen Cooper

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1984

The use of viewdata panels for data collection

This paper predicts the fast growth of in-home data collection via the television screen during the next decade. It describes the current establishment of "screen" panels for on-air polling, ad testing and medical research; and future developments...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Author: John Clemens

June 15, 1984

The Delphi approach

In recent years, the Delphi technique has become one of the most widely used qualitative forecasting approaches. However, relatively little has been written about the validity of the situational factors which are likely to influence the outcome of a...

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

Authors: L. K. Parkinson, Stephen T. Parkinson

June 15, 1984

The financial market data service for establishments

The paper explains, how periods of economic instability have led to new demands for market research data amongst the suppliers of financial services. During times of stagnating or even reduced market research budgets, the structural survey of the...

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

Author: Rolf Pfleiderer

Company: Infratest dimap Gesellschaft fur Trend- und Wahlforschung mbH

June 15, 1984

Spending research money

What strategy should be adopted by researchers who want to help media planning? The traditional route has been to provide databases on media exposure, and these will continue to be required though their design, and access to them, could be improved....

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

Author: Simon Broadbent

June 15, 1984