Resources Library by ANA

Face to face but not eye to eye

The respondent of yesterday answered the phone, gave their time, and we were grateful. Today’s panellist is paid for their views and we often mistrust their motives and data. What of tomorrow’s respondent? They will be on a mobile device...

Catalogue: Congress 2015: Revelations

Authors: Pete Cape, Andrew Moffatt

June 15, 2015

Use of multiple technology platforms in consumer panels

Today, the traditional pen and paper method of data collection in consumer panels faces many problems.The paper describes how to use technology to cope with these problems. New technology can be used in improving the quality of data, speeding up the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Panel Research Conference 2005

Author: Dinko Svetopetric

Company: GfK

April 17, 2005

Maintaining the representativeness of results from an audience measurement panel

This paper discusses issues relating to the representativeness of data obtained from an audience measurement panel. The paper gives a broad overview of most factors which have a key influence on representativeness but concentrates on the practical...

Catalogue: ESORMAR/ARF Worldwide Electronic And Broadcast Audience Research 1994

Authors: Alan Yates, Peter Doe

May 1, 1994

The use of retail audit research in developing and maintaining effective retail distribution

The paper gives an overview of the relationships between two key pieces of retail audit information, sales share and distribution. It shows how, if used correctly, retail audit data can give management a means of focussing their resources to increase...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1992: The Opportunity Factors To Business Success In The Post War Middle East

Author: Tony Antoniou

June 15, 1992

In-home scanning and people meters: Information enhancement or respondent overload?

This paper examines advertiser and agency perspectives on single source data. The authors present a method of evaluating different single source systems based on the informational need for which each service was designed to address. The "focal point"...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Joseph C. Philport, Roger E. Godbeer

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1992

The use of new technology to help the consumer

This paper describes the work of Consumers' Association, publishers of Which?, and of The Survey Unit, giving some details of their aims, organisation, and methods, and describing briefly the problems, particularly those associated with data...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Are Interviewers Obsolete?

Authors: Michael Warren, Michael Willmott

June 15, 1984

The use of a panel in monitoring holiday planning decisions

This paper explains how a specially designed personal interview panel of 550 households was established in Britain to monitor the timing of holiday planning decisions during the December 1976/ June 1977 period.

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Travel And Tourism

Author: Peter B. Hodgson

June 15, 1977