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Random digit dialling crosses the Atlantic

We have devised and developed a new method for creating random digit dialling samples for telephone surveys in our agency. The method itself, which we have named ‘Number Propagation’, is very simple. We take the phone numbers of respondents...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: Ruth Deacon, Martin van Staveren

September 1, 1992

Problems of quality with new information gathering techniques

The question of quality regarding the information-gathering technique whose use has increased the most in Europe - and the United States - in the past ten years, namely, the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) has not received all the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Author: José Ignacio Wert

September 1, 1992

Problems of quality with new information gathering techniques (Spanish)

The question of quality regarding the information-gathering technique whose use has increased the most in Europe - and the United States - in the past ten years, namely, the computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) has not received all the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Author: José Ignacio Wert

September 1, 1992

Marketing and research today (August 1991)

For over thirty years the marketing discipline's self-concept has been dominated by 'the marketing concept' - the conviction that the purpose of the organization is to 'create satisfied customers'. In fact, the real purpose is control and when looked...

Catalogue: Marketing and Research Today

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

August 1, 1991

The role of research in developing Europeanwide corporate communications

Industrial organizations are increasingly being faced with the challenge of deciding how best to communicate - on a European-wide basis - not just with their customers, suppliers, and shareholders, but with a wider audience of stakeholders. These...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Richard Beswick, David Smith

Company: DVL Smith Ltd

June 15, 1991

Marie Claire in Italy

Two years after the October 1987 launch of the Italian edition of the women's monthly Marie Claire, product of the collaboration between Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and the French publisher Marie Claire Album (Prouvost Group), the title has, on the one...

Catalogue: Seminar 1990: The Quality Of Media Information

Authors: Luisa Pogliana, Arnaldo Aisa

June 15, 1990

New research possibilities by computerised personal interviewing

From telephone interviewing and then computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) the last few years have brought along two new systems of datacollection by means of personal interviews. One is the Telepanel-system, which consists of a random...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Authors: Leo van Doorn, Theo Hess

Company: NIPO

September 1, 1988

The validity and efficiency of data collection using screen interviews compared with telephone research

This paper describes the results of a methodological test conducted by NOW Research, on behalf of British Telecom - PRESTEL. The purpose of the research was to assess the validity and efficiency of collecting market research data through the medium...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Authors: David Baker, Cliff Holmes

September 1, 1987

Telephone, mail and other techniques

This chapter is still concerned with occasions when the ‘standard’ forms of interviewing are inappropriate, though before a fourth edition of this work appears it seems likely that such a definition will need revision. In general terms...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Authors: Leonard R. England, Peter Arnold

August 1, 1986