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Opinion polling in Ireland

This paper addresses itself to the factors underlying the rapid change in the attitudes held by the Irish media toward political opinion polling. It draws on data derived from the continuous IMS Political Monitor (established in 1974). It also...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: John F. Meagher

June 15, 1980

The democracy of opinion polls

Observation of the behaviour, attitudes and opinions, among other things, of a population can be done to achieve many objectives. Much of such studies belong to the field of market research, and much to social research. Opinion polling is included in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Norman L. Webb

Company: Gallup International Association

June 15, 1980

Effects of television advertising on children

A sample of 900 children (and their mothers), aged 6 to 13 and representative the Federal Republic of Germany was interviewed on a wide- spread selection of leisure-time activities, media consumption data as well as their opinions and attitudes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Henning Haase

June 15, 1980

Interviewing children

The IFES has started a research project on public and parental resistance to the interviewing of children, examine for a series of topics which arguments are used against interviews with children, where the appropriate age limit to treating the topic...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Ernst Gehmacher

Company: IFES - Institute for Empirical Social Research

June 15, 1980

Journalistic developments in the use of opinion polls: Panel discussion

It's not know-how about opinion polls but pure journalistic knowledge of how to integrate opinion and attitudinal research in the journalistic formula.

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Bertil Torekull

June 15, 1980

Current attitudes to development

Unilever is a multinational in every sense of the word, operating in 75 countries, employing over 300,000 people. In 1978 Unilever's sales to third parties reached £9,842 million worldwide. It is the 12th largest commercial concern in the world,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: New Product Development

Author: Hugh R. Darby

Company: Unilever

October 1, 1979

Audience appreciation and audience size

Most television programmes can be classified into two main programme types, Information and Entertainment. Information programmes tend to get smaller audiences but higher appreciation scores than do Entertainment programmes. Between these two main...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Patrick Barwise, Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 15, 1979

How important is social research to the pharmaceutical industry?

It is the objective of this paper to explore the potential value of Social Research to the Pharmaceutical Industry. I do not intend to cover every aspect of research that could loosely be termed ’social’ research, rather, I will concentrate...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: The Changing Environment For Pharmaceutical Marketing

Authors: Hugh Robert Stammers, David Holmes

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1979

The gap study

This paper reports the advertising strategies developed by Foote, Cone & Belding, based on the Group Attitude Profile Study done by our client, the First National Bank of Chicago. In 1971-72, the Bank undertook one of the most extensive consumer...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: The Marketing Of Financial Service In A Competitive Environment

Author: Lynne O'Shea

June 15, 1979