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Information styles in Switzerland

The present paper gives the results of a comprehensive investigation, modelled on the methodology of lifestyle studies, into the reading and information styles in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. On the attitudes and behavioural patterns...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Author: Edith Riemerschmid

June 15, 1981

Sampling businessmen

This paper reviews the sampling and fieldwork techniques of five Businessman Readership Surveys conducted in the UK during 1973-1980. It's objective is to present in outline, and discuss, the sampling approaches designed for surveying a "large"...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Erhard Meier

May 1, 1981

The case of primary readership

For many years there has been controversy about the value of pass-on readers. Some media buyers prefer circulation as their criterion, most feel that publications with very high numbers of readers-per-copy cannot be judged by readership alone in the...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: William J. Wilson

June 15, 1980

Readership diary panels

A ‘panel’ is a study in which information is collected about the same people or organisations over an extended period of time. A ‘diary panel’ is a panel where the information is collected by asking the participants to keep a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.3: Print Media Research

Author: James Rothman

June 15, 1980

Recognition versus recency

Through-the-Book and Recent Reading are the current ‘hot potatoes’ in media research and we constantly see them being thrown from hand to hand. This chapter attempts to show the advantages and disadvantages of both TTB and RR. In doing so,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.3: Print Media Research

Author: Rolf Speetzen

June 15, 1980

Predicting media schedule effectiveness by the 'media planex' method

The general description given below is only a part of a wider confirmation that the system is a reasonable description of the real world. Its use in the agency therefore gives confidence that a particular schedule recommended has been constructed...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: Jean Michel Agostini, Nicolas Steinberg

June 15, 1980

Qualitative readership research

The term ‘qualitative’ can cover a wide range of aspects that go beyond average issue readership, and which are relevant to the planning of advertising schedules.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Monograph Series Vol.3: Print Media Research

Author: Liliana Denon

June 15, 1980

Mass media and free time

The paper presents the objectives, the method, some results and forms of utilisation of a survey (ISJ Survey) on the reading habits, as regards the periodical press, of Italian children and young people (aged between 6 and 17), on exposure to other...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Authors: Costantino Jannacone, Ennio Salamon

Company: DOXA

June 15, 1980

Measurement of average issue readership

The JICMARS survey - launched in 1978 - is a continuous survey amongst UK General Medical Practitioners jointly financed by publishers, advertising agents and the pharmaceutical industry. The objective is to provide media planning data concerning...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Media Measurement And Media Choice

Authors: R. J. Worrall, Tony Twyman

June 15, 1980