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How reliable are portfolio tests? (German)

One of the oldest techniques to test the level of attention of advertisements, yet nevertheless still often in practice today, is the portfolio test: the test person goes through a folder usually containing 10 advertisements. Afterwards it is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1980: Taking Stock

Author: Jörg Rehorn

September 1, 1980

Estimating the market share, readers profile and important attributes of a newspaper

This paper tries to demonstrate how a marketing research project aids decision makers to improve the validity and reliability of their decisions. A survey was undertaken to find out the present and future levels of market share, the appropriate ratio...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Kemal Kurtulu

November 1, 1979

Value for money of qualitative research

This paper describes the results of an experiment which examines the reliability and validity of qualitative research. Two studies of the same marketing problem (a pack test) were conducted and compared: one a qualitative study (6 group discussions),...

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

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Peter Cooper

Company: QRi Consulting Ltd.

September 1, 1978

Beyond the boundaries of response

This paper will deal particularly with the response rate, using various sample-designs, and its bearing on the reliability of the results. The extent to which research findings are dependent on regional dispersion, however, will be treated in a...

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

Authors: Jean F. K. Dinjens, C. J. M. Pooters

September 1, 1978

A proposal to evaluate research projects

One of the most important responsibilities of decision makers and also of research managers, including marketing and social research managers as well, is to select the best research projects among alternative ones to be undertaken. To determine the...

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

Author: Kemal Kurtulu

September 1, 1978

Is attitude segmentation in the holiday market a reliable predictor of future behaviour?

This paper sets out firstly to describe the historic development of market segmentation in tourism research, through a review of ESOMAR and other published sources. We then reconsider the fundamental methods and objectives of market segmentation and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Travel And Tourism

Authors: Dawn Mitchell, Len J. Marchant

June 15, 1977

TV advertising pre-testing

This is a case history of an attempt to use established, non- innovative research techniques to construct a system of T. V. advertisement pre-testing which could provide actionable results. For marketing management the research results must relate...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Roger S. Parkyn

September 1, 1976

On the limits of reliability in social and commercial surveys

There has been ample documentation over the past years of the various sources of error in surveys. This paper reviews some of the more important work presented by academic, government and commercial organisations. These sources of error in commercial...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Benjamin Lipstein

August 1, 1975

Market monitoring through attitude research

The need to monitor market changes, competitive activities and own performance is satisfied with a measurement procedure based upon consumer attitudes. In addition to being simple and inexpensive to administer, the procedure demonstrates reliability,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Authors: Stephen J. Arnold, Douglas J. Tigert

April 1, 1974