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New data collection techniques

This paper cautions against rushing toward new data collection technologies and instead urges an assessment where and when they are appropriate. Only a small amount of primary research on this has been undertaken, and as such the assertions are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Authors: Rana Tassabehji, Russell King

September 23, 2001

Exploiting analytical advances

This paper considers the implications of new analytic advances on Internet-based surveys of non-random samples. The empirical evidence presented indicate that Internet-based forecasts in the 2000 U.S. elections were two times more accurate than...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference Worldwide Online Measurement 2001

Authors: George Terhanian, Renee Smith, John Bremer, Randall K. Thomas

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

June 1, 2001

RAJAR respondents

A wide range of demographic and other data for the classification and description of listeners is collected as part of the RAJAR audience measurement system in the United Kingdom. In addition to the existing characteristics, users have expressed...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Authors: John Stockley, Tim Farmer

Company: Ipsos MRBI

April 1, 2001

Paradata

The web provides researchers with a gold mine. Every click, response, page movement and delay can be logged and used for analysis. The amount of data that can be captured from web surveys is vast and comprehensive. This paper aims to explain the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Author: Andrew Jeavons

February 11, 2001

Hypercontext: Same as it never was

Technological advances are engendering debate on the survey production line, but the process is only part of the story. Are we in the grip of a drive not towards insight but towards mere automation? Do we want our data deeper – or just cheaper?...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Authors: Andy Dexter, Joseph Brown

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

February 11, 2001

Look, no hands!

Two streams of online research have developed. In the first (largely adopted by ‘traditional’ research agencies), traditional survey and/or question-based techniques are undertaken across digital media (rather than face-to-face or by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Author: Rob Lawson

Company: Engage Research

February 11, 2001

The quality of online panels

Using a quasi-experimental design – in which data collection methods and recruitment techniques as influencing factors were varied – Ipsos Germany conducted a comparative investigation for Langnese/Unilever to assess the validity of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Authors: Michael Hoppe, Rainer Lamp

Companies: Ipsos MRBI, Unilever

February 11, 2001

Ask a cyberquestion!

This paper examines the development of the Internet as its relates to marketing and the role of online customer research. It looks at the changing relationship between marketer and customers, the impact of virtual communities, the development of...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.8: International Marketing Research

Author: David Pring

September 1, 1999

Quantitative research

The data collection methodology used will be dictated largely by the sample within the universe in which you wish to interview and the overall survey design. However, it is important to understand what different data collection methodologies are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Didy Ward

September 1, 1998