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Lifestyle segmentation of the Chinese consumer

Although lifestyle research is abundant in western countries, similar research is absent in China due to historical reasons. More recently researchers and organizations have begun to pay attention to the differentiation of Chinese consumers.Based on...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2004

Author: Forest Ma

March 28, 2004

Disease, terror, fraud and recession

Much has been written in Asia over the past year on SARS and the effect it has had, amongst other things, on consumer behaviour. Crises and disasters occur on a regular basis all over the globe - but was SARS special or just one of a series of...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2004

Authors: Fung Shing Kwong, Lisa Lee, David McCallum

Company: Nielsen

March 28, 2004

Consumer choice for over-the-counter drugs and supplements in the health care arena

A framework is presented to understand how consumers respond to eight topics for OTC health care, ranging from simple physical examinations to medicinal shampoo.The objective is to understand how consumers process information about health care, such...

Catalogue: Global Healthcare 2004

Authors: Hollis Ashman, Howard R. Moskowitz, Samuel Rabino, Dorothy Minkus- McKenna, John Himmelstein

Company: Moskowitz Jacobs Inc.

February 22, 2004

Is anybody home?

This paper discusses a method to incorporate out-of-home viewing in the TAM ratings. In some cases the audience profile of channels and their programmes could be dramatically different if this viewing behaviour would be integrated in the ratings.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Television

Authors: Lex van Meurs, Nelly Kalfs

Companies: Stichting Kijkonderzoek (SKO), GfK

June 17, 2003

The Canadian RTS study

By returning to the sample of Canadians who filled out a BBM radio diary, BBM Canada was able to bring an extensive product and customer behavior database combined with BBM's radio ratings to desktops in Canadian radio stations, agencies and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Craig Dorning, Pasquale A. Pellegrini

June 16, 2003

21st century measurement of 21st century media

Arbitron's Portable People Meters (PPM) capture considerably more granularity of consumer listening behavior than the diary method, according to recent PPM results from Philadelphia. Though both methods yield similar overall quarter-hours, PPM picks...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF WAM Conference 2003: Radio

Authors: Roberta M. McConochie, Bruce Goerlich, Scott Stinnett

Company: Nielsen

June 16, 2003

The dilemma of brand identity in Latin America

The hypothesis of this paper is that consumer's attitudes and behaviors toward global and local brands are integrated into the same dynamic process that gives origin to acceptance and rejection of globalization as an economic, technological, social...

Catalogue: Latin America 2003

Author: Nora D'Alessio

May 4, 2003

The dilemma of brand identity in Latin America (Spanish)

The hypothesis of this paper is that consumer's attitudes and behaviors toward global and local brands are integrated into the same dynamic process that gives origin to acceptance and rejection of globalization as an economic, technological, social...

Catalogue: Latin America 2003

Author: Nora D'Alessio

May 4, 2003

Lifestyles in Uruguay

This paper provides the main results of research carried out at the beginning of 2002, based on a 2,000 case survey, concerning lifestyles in Uruguayan society. The main objective is to contribute to the discussion about the usefulness of the...

Catalogue: Latin America 2003

Author: Nicolás Somma

May 4, 2003