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Quality control and standards in different countries in the context of multinational surveys

This paper consists of two parts - in the first part Vincent Ophoff, Managing Director of NSS and President of the IRIS network, describes the "process control" necessary for successful design and management of multinational surveys. In the second,...

Catalogue: ICC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: International Marketing Research

Authors: Vincent F.W. Ophoff, Jane Kalim

June 15, 1984

Making the editorial matter of medical magazines more attractive

In Germany two continuous research services are available measurement the relative readership of the editorial elements in 30 major medical magazines. One service is private, the other one is part of the syndicated audience research organisation...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: Publishing A Better Product

Authors: Ilse Meier, Gerhard Zacharias

November 23, 1983

Fieldwork quality

The paper illustrates that the quality of fieldwork is still a matter of concern and that although research suppliers and buyers are aware of this, and recognise fieldwork as a most important element of any research project, little is being done to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: D. K. Willingale

August 1, 1975

Quality control using exclusive interviewers

The paper starts from the standpoint that most of the recent literature on fieldwork organisation and quality control is concerned with the conventional field force consisting of a comparatively large number of freelance interviewers dispersed...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Ian Jarvis

Company: Burke, Inc.

August 1, 1975

Quality in research

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

Quality in research (French)

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

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

Experience of a computer system for the quality control of interviewers

This paper describes a method of using the computer, as a stage of the checking process, to look for interviewers, who have cheated or deviated from the specified instructions. The method is simple and has often been recommended, but to our knowledge...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Authors: R. King, P. Trotman

Company: Nestlé

October 1, 1973

Selection and training of interviewers

The methods of interviewer selection in current use are examined, reference being made to those described by Dr. Noelle Neumann and Mr. Paul Berent in their papers read at the Esomar Congress in Evian in 1962. The interviewer selection methods used...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: Joan Macfarlane Smith

June 15, 1969