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Public versus private opinion

The opportunities for research in the 1980s will be much affected by changes in society. In particular, by a clash between two powerful forces: the producer bureaucracy and the new individualism. It will be a clash of values and opinions and research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Author: Stephen King

June 15, 1979

Public versus private opinion

This paper suggests that there is a genuine difference between people's "private opinions" and their "public opinions"; but the requirements of media contests will force research methods to concentrate almost entirely on "public opinion". The danger...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Author: Stephen King

June 15, 1979

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

International dimension in social research

Since early 1974 the Commission of the European Community has six-monthly opinion polls carried out, among the population aged 15 and over. The paper shows, by way of two examples, the importance and utility of these surveys: 1. The feeling of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Authors: Jacques-René Rabier, Helene Riffault

Company: IFOP

December 1, 1977

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

Survey research on crime, criminal law and criminal justice in Japan

This paper presents the most significant available data concerning Japanese attitudes toward and opinions about crime, criminal law and criminal justice, selected from the results of reliably conducted public opinion surveys. The selected data focus...

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

Author: Masaji Chiba

September 1, 1973

Survey research on crime, criminal law and criminal justice in Belgium

In this paper we shall try to give a brief account of the public opinion polls held or planned in Belgium in the realm of criminality, criminal law and criminal justice. We have thought fit to distinguish three headings: 1. public opinion polls which...

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

Author: J. Van Houtte

September 1, 1973

Survey research on crime, criminal law and criminal justice in the United States

Since 1965, there has been rapidly expanding utilisation of surveys of the general public for knowledge about crime, law enforcement and criminal justice in the United States. This paper presents some results of an inventory completed in 1972...

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

Author: Albert D. Biderman

September 1, 1973

Agricultural planning and opinion surveys

Amongst the most urgent and difficult problems to be solved today, without any doubt, is that of agricultural development and the success of planning in this field. The series of surveys that we have carried out for the last several years to evaluate...

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

Author: Michel Hoffmann

September 1, 1973