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British attitudes towards the European communities

In the spring of 1971 Social and Community Planning Research was invited by the European Movement to conduct a major survey of public attitudes to Britain and her possible links with the European Economic Community or Common Market. Like the polls,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: James Spence

August 1, 1975

The New Jersey experiment

The purpose of this paper is to use the New Jersey Experiment (NJE) as a case study context in which to discuss the special problems social policy experimentation poses for the survey research community. Section I presents a brief overview of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Cheri T. Marshall

August 1, 1975

Survey research in developing countries

This paper discusses the general state of survey research in Egypt, with emphasis on public opinion surveys. It discusses, after reviewing the development of survey research, survey priorities, public opinion surveys, some methodological...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Nahed Saleh

August 1, 1975

Measuring multiple deprivation

As a result public discussion of social issues is now increasingly focussed not on the mass of the people, but on those suffering extreme misfortune. When concerned for this unfortunate minority concentrates on income, its members have been referred...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Richard Berthoud

August 1, 1975

Models of mass communication for a media-rich developing society

Two dramatically different images of mass communication have emerged from research in post-industrial societies and in the developing nations of the "Third World". In predominantly agricultural countries, where mass media resources tend to be limited...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Steven H. Chaffee, Fausto Izcaray

August 1, 1975

Opinion polling viewed by a late starter

The author draw from his experience that opinion polling is part of the main-stream of market research, not a seapart methodology. The remaining sections of this paper deal with his view on both technical and non-technical problems that have arisen...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

August 1, 1975

The British motorist and the oil crisis

This paper describes how motorists in the United Kingdom reacted to a series of events following the Arabs-Israeli war of 1973. These events include petrol shortages, both threatened and actual, appeals to save fuel in the national interest, both...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: David Lowe-Watson

August 1, 1975

The experiment near-gratis-fare

To what extent can drivers of private cars be won over to local public transport by cheap fares during the rush hour! Answering this question was the main task of the experiment NEAR-GRATIS-FARE. During the course of nine months, approximately 10.000...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Dieter Franke

August 1, 1975

Personal saving and social trends in Great Britain 1973-1974

This paper demonstrates, by reference to the Taylor Nelson MONITOR of Social Trends: 1. That savings and investment behaviour shows the same lack of rationality as other consumer behaviour; 2. that socio-economic variations are different from those...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: T. Punt

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

August 1, 1975