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Socioeconomic benefits of drugs

As a result socioeconomic differentiation may represent additionally to the drug's therapeutic merit-proof a decisive component to achieve a sustainable competitive edge. It represents a strategic element which pharmaceutical companies will have to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Pricing And Forecasting In Pharmaceutical Industry

Author: J. Wernli

June 15, 1987

A climate of doom

Intrigued by many references to a possible climate of doom in the Netherlands and a lack of social research related to this subject, the Nederlandse Stichting voor Statistiek (NSS) undertook a study of this phenomenon. Based upon the research it was...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1982: Fitting Research To Turbulent Times

Author: Arnold de Vos

June 15, 1982

Improving the quality of life for ethnic minority groups

Although I wish to draw on research into ethnic minority groups for examples to demonstrate the hypotheses I wish to put, I see no reason why the same hypotheses need not apply equally to many other aspects of public sector social research. The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: John Hanvey

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

December 1, 1978

Statistics on Britain's new towns and chief impact on opinion and decision making

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of statistics relevant to quality of life on the climate of public opinion and decision making. Following this introduction and summary the paper has four sections. Section 2 gives some background...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Ray Thomas, Patricia Prescott-Clarke

December 1, 1978

Policy research and care of the elderly

The Government has now enunciated its alternative; its present policy is to depend increasingly on 'community care'. The primary objective of the Department's policy on the care of the elderly is to enable old people to maintain independent lives in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Mark Abrams, Len J. Marchant

December 1, 1977

The world housing market

This paper presents an analysis of the world housing market for the period 1960-1985. Historical and projected data are presented for number of households, conventional homes in place, homes wired for electricity, homes containing piped-in water,...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Ives Harvey, Andrew C. Gross, Roger J. Calantone

August 28, 1977

The theory and practice of index construction, illustrated with an index of anomie

The concern with Quality of Life and the large numbers of social indicators that are being identified as relevant to quality of life, raises political and ethical questions in respect of choices that must be made from among them. The necessity to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: E.J. Van Goudoever

September 1, 1973

Consumption, business cycles and consumer politics

The report presents survey results from projects by the "Forschungsstelle fur empirische Sozialokonomik", since 1968, the fieldwork of which was done by commercial institutes. One of the main topics are results from regular surveys in the field of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Authors: B. Biervert, H. P. Haarland, H. J. Niessen

September 1, 1972