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Strategic planning is not dead but different

The strategic planning process has changed very significant since the early 1970s. Planning has changed in terms of scope (it needs to encompass a mere diverse range of publics) in terms of time span (the need fox' greater flexibility dictates...

Catalogue: AMA/JMRA/JMA/ESOMAR Conference 1983: Strategic Planning

Author: Martin van Mesdag

June 15, 1983

Multivariate data analysis and consumer behaviour

The purpose of this communications is to review the main applications of multivariate methods to a preeminent area of marketing research consumer behavior. Three areas of application are distinguished, based on a paradigm of consumer behavioral...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Yves Evrard

June 15, 1982

Pre-classifying consumers

This paper discusses current and future developments in the ways pre-classification can be used. The paper particularly examines the use of small area statistics linked to other data bases. A suggestion is also made as to how pre- classification can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Bill Blyth

June 15, 1982

The current state of methodological developments in the multivariate analysis of surveys

The paper considers the current state of multivariate analysis when the data available only take the form of binary and classified variables. This restriction has meant that researchers have had to develop new techniques to deal with problems of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Paul Harris

June 15, 1982

Off the beaten track

This paper deals with new methods of determining target groups in media research. Over the past three decades, media research has essentially developed in response to the advertising industry's interest in information about how large segments of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Authors: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Friedrich W. R. Tennstädt

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1982

Practical use of consumer panels

The paper provides a comparison of some aspects of Consumer panel operations in Canada and the United States with those in Europe. The main difference is the method of recruitment, the use of mail and telephone in North America compared with personal...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: The Effective Use Of Panels

Authors: Ivor McGloughlin, Jim Lockyear

June 15, 1982

Radical changes in the Dutch NRS

Earlier this month a new NOP media-survey started. Not an important feat in itself. Important is, however, that it is entirely different from its predecessors - especially in the methodological aspects. The alterations are based on the results of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Improving Media Research

Author: Joop L. van Vliet

June 15, 1982

Information display boards (IDB)

Information Display methodology is a laboratory procedure which consists in presenting subjects with an array of product information and permitting them to acquire as much or as little information as they wish, before, arriving at a purchase decision...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Bernard Dubois

June 15, 1982

Some basic principles and recent developments

This paper describes some recent developments in the area of consumer classification. No attempt has been made to be comprehensive and coverage is confined mainly to the UK, where the author has most first hand experience. The paper was intended as a...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Tony Lunn

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

June 15, 1982