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Acceptance, refusal and return rates in French panels dealing with radio and television audience research (French)

This paper presents the synthesis of the work carried out by CEO and SOFRES with the aim oh studying in greater depth the behavior and attitudes of the public as regards collaboration on panels of limited duration. Two types of approaches are...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: D. Martinet, Jacqueline Aglietta

June 15, 1977

Questionnaire monotony endangers the comparability of results

But monotony is powerful enough to adulterate the results. Noelle Neumann proved that the influence of monotony was visible even in simple inquiries, for example when ascertaining readership figures of daily newspapers. If the questionnaire was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

September 5, 1976

The effect of a quality approach on response-rates in industrial mail surveys

This paper reviews - after a short discussion on the suitability and application of mail surveys in industrial research - a number of possibilities to increase the quality of mail-survey-response, both in terms of completeness and of extent. It...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: G. van der Most

August 1, 1975

The quality of research is...

Since the theme of this Congress is the quality of research, I thought it might be a good idea to find out what some ESOMAR members think has been the contribution of ESOMAR Congresses, not just to the overall quality of research, but to the quality...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Emanuel H. Demby

August 1, 1975

Interim report on the Grecian 2000 self-completion questionnaire

This interim report contains the results of a hand-counton certain critical questions on the Grecian 2000Self-Completion Questionnaires which were sent outon the 9th April 1974. The data is based on allquestionnaires returned by Friday, 3rd May, a d...

Catalogue: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection

Author: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive

May 8, 1974

Self-completion questionnaires (Part I)

Self-completion questionnaires are a basic and much-used tool of the market researcher. Their great attraction is that by avoiding the need to employ a force of trained interviewers they considerably reduce the costs of undertaking a survey. This...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1971

Author: John Nolan

June 15, 1971

The question of requisite random test evaluation in written surveys

Following a series of investigations undertaken into the methods of written surveys by the authors, this argument can be viewed as correct only up to a certain point. When written surveys are entailed , the requisite degree of evaluation is dependent...

Catalogue: The European Marketing Research Review 1969

Authors: K. M. Bolte, H. J. Richter

August 1, 1969

Recent developments in market segmentation

Market segmentation is a diffuse topic, embracing a wide range of issues. This paper discusses a number of these that have arisen in work carried out by the author during recent years. She main theme of the paper is the need to preserve a flexible...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: J. A. Lunn

June 15, 1969

Postal contact

Lack of information and an absence of objectively critical opinions from sociologists and marketing men have led to the present situation whereby personal contact is canonised and used as a criterion of the validity of postal contact. Referring to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1968

Author: Hakan K. E. Karlsson

June 15, 1968