Resources Library by ANA

Big Data and research data

We all know companies hold more customer data than ever before, but how can we successfully marry this to primary research? What's the best way to map psychographic data (attitudes, behaviours, responses, etc.) to the data you reliably have for all...

Catalogue: Big Data World 2016: Understanding People Through Smart Data

Authors: Joe Catling, Rupesh Patel

Company: Relish Research

November 18, 2016

Redefining qualitative research

This paper defines the character of qualitative research and investigates the potential lack of objectivity. Reasons, why different researchers arrive at different results, are identified: one major reason is the existence of different qualitative...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Worldwide Qualitative Conference 2001: The Business Value Of Emotional Intelligence

Authors: Wulf Schlund, Dirk Frank

Company: ISM GLOBAL DYNAMICS GmbH

October 28, 2001

Developing new panel services for retailers

This paper describes how consumer panels in Great Britain have been developed in recent years to provide a wide range of services that are of specific relevance to grocery retailers. The paper will go on to describe in more detail three new services...

Catalogue: Revolutions In Panel Research 1997: New Questions, New Solutions

Author: Allan Breese

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

February 1, 1997

Cluster analysis

Clustering normally operates on the rows of the data matrix. It seeks to find groupings or clusters of respondents who exhibit similar patterns in terms of the variables measured.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Teach-In Seminar 1995: All You Ever Wanted To Know About Sampling, Statistics And Questionnaires

Author: Paul Harris

February 14, 1995

A comparative analysis of alternative segmentation methodologies

Using behavioral data, two alternative segmentation methodologies, regression and cluster analysis, were compared on the basis of rigor, reliability, parsimony, interpretability and strategic implications for retailers. Regression analysis is the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1989

Authors: Douglas J. Tigert, Stephen J. Arnold

September 1, 1989

Life-style of the elderly in Austria

Partial results of a comprehensive life-style study are presented here. The subsample of 50-to-75-year olds (n=1.500) was subjected to a cluster analysis with the help of 28 variables. Two of the five resulting clusters characteristically...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Rudolf Bretschneider

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

A major research exercise identifying and quantifying relevant consumer groups in over 60's market: The hotel industry

Although the marketing world claims to have woken up to 'grey power' our experience suggests that much of the thinking behind propositions aimed at older people is still founded on cliche and misconception. We formed this view in the course of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Authors: Mia Bartonova, Ruth Betts, John Martindale

June 15, 1989

Life-style of the elderly in Austria (German)

Partial results of a comprehensive life-style study are presented here. The subsample of 50-to-75-year olds (n=1.500) was subjected to a cluster analysis with the help of 28 variables. Two of the five resulting clusters characteristically...

Catalogue: Seminar 1989: The Untapped Gold Mine

Author: Rudolf Bretschneider

Company: GfK

June 15, 1989

Unravelling the advertising response function

Since 1980 Cadbury Schweppes Australia has been involved with an ongoing programme of advertising research. This paper reports analysis of a data-set of the reactions of target market viewers to 339 finished television commercials using the Viewer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Michael F. Cramphorn

September 1, 1988