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Respondent reaction to computer-interactive interviewing techniques

Computer-interactive (electronic) interviewing shows promise of producing higher levels of respondent interest fewer errors, and data with breadth and richness unattainable through conventional means, all at comparable cost. The Xerox Corporation...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Authors: James N. MacBride, Richard M. Johnson

September 1, 1980

Spare time and playing of children

Systematic children research can show discrepancies regarding the children's world of spare time and play. In part, children want something quite different in their spare time from what they may do and what they really do in adaptation-to the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Brigitte Melzer

June 15, 1980

A comparative analysis of voting and voters in Germany and the United Kingdom

The objective of this paper is to investigate what can be learnt about comparative politics from an examination of public opinion poll data across country. The two countries selected are Germany and Britain: and the data compared is mainly taken from...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Authors: John Clemens, Kurt Galler

Company: Marplan Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

June 15, 1980

Childrens' TV consumption

A sample of 900 pupils, aged 6 to 13 and representative for the Federal Republic Of Germany (and their mothers) was questioned about a wide-spread selection of leisure-time activities, media-consumption as well as their opinions and attitudes towards...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Jürgen Pfifferling

June 15, 1980

National value systems

Values are regarded as ordering principles for social action. This explains some of the scientific attention value problems have recently received. Is social change promoted by and linked to change in values? Are there both changeable and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Gerhard Schmidtchen

June 15, 1980

The launching of two special interest magazines

This case tells about the launches of two special interest magazines and the results obtained. These launches were the very opposites to each other. One of the magazines was started very spontaneously on the solid insight and belief of its makers....

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Authors: Matti Peltonen, Patrick Elg

November 1, 1979

Socio-psychological characteristics of book-buyers in the book stores in comparison with book club members

Over the last 4-5 years there has been, in Italy, a rapid growth of book clubs as against a fairly contained growth of book sales in the book stores. This rapid growth has been caused by a type of public which is generally different from that of Book...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Arnaldo Aisa

November 1, 1979

Study of the reading habits of physicians

In the course of the readership analysis of medical journals in 1977 (LA-MED 77), a number of methodical experiments were carried out in addition to the standard interview with the aim of supporting the existing methods and acquiring additional...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Dieter Müller-Veeh, Gunda Opfer

June 15, 1979

A method of quantitative comparison of regional markets

Traditionally, classificatory economic research has adopted two main approaches: - Heuristic, which is based on the assumptions, the knowledge and the intuition of experts, and; -Mathematical, which is based on formalised models, usually of a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Andrey A. Goriatchev, S. A. Redkozubov

June 15, 1979