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Sampling in Asia

The term Asia is used here in a restricted sense to include the countries from India to the Pacific, bounded in the north by China, South Korea and Japan and in the south by Indonesia. This region contains approximately 2.7 billion people, about a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Trevor Sharot

September 1, 1998

The changing context for research

The first point is that the industry has continued, impressively, its worldwide growth. The most recent published estimate, by ESOMAR for the year 1997, puts the current value of research by market research institutes at 10.4 billion EURO, equivalent...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Colin McDonald, Phyllis Vangelder

September 1, 1998

Employee research

Employee research has been a major research growth area in recent years. In the 1960s such research was a fairly rare occurrence; now it is relatively common place in the United Kingdom and becoming more widespread elsewhere. This chapter addresses...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Ruth McNeil

September 1, 1998

Questionnarie design

In order to clarify our thinking about questionnaire design, it will be helpful to break down the issues associated with it into distinct groupings. A useful four way classification of these groups is as follows: a) meeting research objectives b)...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Sharon Miller, Graham Read

September 1, 1998

International Internet monitoring research

The Internet is playing a more important role now than it has played years ago and will be the most important information and communication tool in the near future - but it looks as a non-structured information chaos. The challenge of our research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Volker Kruse, Eddy Meyer-Rochow

September 1, 1998

Killing the golden goose

This paper explores the relationship between the research industry and its primary source of data the general public. Drawing on evidence from a variety of sources the paper suggests that to ensure that we obtain and continue to obtain high...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Michael Warren

September 1, 1998

Market research

Knowledge is an important corporate asset and yet the development of a knowledge based infrastructure is a relatively new business practice. This paper argues that such an important new development should be business-led rather than IT-led yet...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: David Holmes

September 1, 1998

Modelling with neural nets

This paper describes an operational model used within the scope of a budget process for a warranty extension product. The model is built on a database containing a record of the costs incurred with several thousand vehicles over a period of five...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Pierre Marie Windal, Nathalie Gouenard, Christine Oneto

September 1, 1998

The future- predictable or otherwise

The thesis of this paper is that senior executives in most companies (if the major pharmaceutical companies are a fair indicator of corporate management) have little incentive to anticipate the long term let alone act upon it. Any paralysis toward...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Stephen Godwin

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1998