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Are telephone interviews a useful alternative in image research?

Sceptical opinions have been voiced about the use of telephone interviews, in spite of its advantages. In particular in countries with a low degree of telephone penetration the lower representativity of the sample and consequently, poorer survey...

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

Author: Tjarko H. Veldman

September 1, 1978

The telephonic group discussion: Is it really a new way?

This paper describes both technical conditions and qualitative aspects of telephonic group-discussions after three years of experience with this tool. Collecting different subscribers by telephone in a way that they can communicate freely together is...

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

Author: Ralph Weill

Company: Konso Ltd.

November 1, 1977

Comparisons of readership data derived from aided recall data and diary records

Conventionally readership data in Great Britain has been collected by personal interview methods using a form of aided recall. In 1973, London Weekend Television Limited commissioned Marplan Limited to carry out a series of diary panel studies in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Sue Stoessl, J. Stocks

August 28, 1977

Van hire with driver survey

Wilkinson Transport Ltd. has commissioned two previous telephonesurveys of haulers in the Greater Manchester area (August 1973and October 1974), in order to locate firms offering a van hirewith driver service and to establish details of cost. This...

Catalogue: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection

Author: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive

March 1, 1976

Pharmaceutical concept tests by telephone

The general image of telephone interviewing is of very short quantitative measurements.Therefore , the idea of using telephone interviewing for studies with medical doctors has so far rarely been realised. This is true despite of the fact that...

Catalogue: Seminar 1975: Pharmaceutical Market Research For New Product Development

Author: Ralph Weill

March 1, 1975

The telephone in consumer research

If someone asks for a recommendation on interview technique the consumer researcher will probably mention personal, postal and telephone in that order. If someone ask specifically about telephone interviewing the researcher will probably say "quick...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: David Miln, David Stewart-Hunter, Len J. Marchant

September 1, 1974

Practical considerations of the technique of telephone interviewing

The paper concerns with the practical aspects of telephone interviewing, but does not attempt to enter discussion concerning the characteristics of the telephone owning population. The authors have had experience over the past two years of using the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Derek Simonds, Gordon Haymes

September 1, 1974

3100 copier advertising effectiveness

In March 1974 CRAM carried out a telephone interviewsurvey in the Greater Manchester area amongstbuyers of office equipment in the industry, to evaluate theeffectiveness of a press advertisement for the 3100 copiers,appearing in the Guardian and the...

Catalogue: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive Collection

Author: CRAM/Peter Cooper Archive

September 25, 1973

Use of introductory letters for telephone interviews

As the number of private telephone subscribers increases (in September 1973, 57 % of all households in the Netherlands had home telephones), interviewing by telephone of samples of private persons is becoming a thing of the present or of the near...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Author: T. H. M. van Kooten

June 15, 1973