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Practical experience with central telephone interviewing

The paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of centralised telephone interviewing, in particular in comparison with conventional decentralised personal interviewing. Centralised telephone interviewing provides real benefits in terms of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Author: Ian Jarvis

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 1978

Beyond the boundaries of response

This paper will deal particularly with the response rate, using various sample-designs, and its bearing on the reliability of the results. The extent to which research findings are dependent on regional dispersion, however, will be treated in a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Jean F. K. Dinjens, C. J. M. Pooters

September 1, 1978

Implementation of marketing models

In efforts to improve "the return on capital invested in market and social research" models can play an important role. To this end models have to be built which can and will be used in private industry or in the public sector, that is, implementable...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Philippe Autor Naert, Peter S.H. Leeflang

September 1, 1978

Parallel views regarding the case of an East-West industrial cooperation

The case study summarizes the basic conceptions, advantages, risks and most important facts of the cooperation of ICI and a Hungarian company, TVM. After stressing the importance and sketching the types of international industrial cooperations, the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: P. S. Ellis, Gábor Hoványi

September 1, 1978

An assessment of micro-behavioural modelling and its cost effectiveness

The paper argues the flexibility and versatility of this approach to modelling in terms of scale, scope, type of marketing problem and type of product field. Six case histories are cited, ranging from a simple use of Trade Off as an input to a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: M. M. Blackston, J. A. Lunn

September 1, 1978

The evaluation of the drink and drive advertising campaign 1976/1977

This paper presents a detailed case history of the 1976/77 advertising campaign to persuade people in Britain against drinking and driving. It deals firstly with the background to the campaign and the role of research in its development. The main...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Authors: Barry Lee, John A. Samuels

September 1, 1978

How to analyse heterogenous data?

In many cases, data collected in the same questionnaire are measured at different levels: nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio. For several years, new methods allow to analyse qualitative and/or heterogeneous data. They are based on the optimal...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Jean-Marie Bouroche

February 1, 1978

Terminals versus Minis

Thus a firm 'producing' marketing studies from survey data tries to control all of the different phases: conceptualization, fieldwork, data processing and interpretation of the final results. Our goal here is to study the question of the data...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Bernard Morin

February 1, 1978

Car owner's attitude change

In this paper we discuss some of the results and implications of an experimental study of changes in car owners' attitudes to their cars. In particular, we are interested in how their attitudes develop from the time the car is first purchased through...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Ways And New Ways Of Data Collection

Author: Douglas J. Johnson

November 1, 1977