Resources Library by ANA

Research for the non-household market for goods and services

This paper is based on a study dealing with one of the three segments of the non-household market for goods and services: the segment consisting of "work-locations". Initiated by Douwe Egberts B.V., this study was carried out for the first time by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: W. G. M. Steur, Jean F. K. Dinjens

September 1, 1974

The baptism of the trade off model in Europe

Two main themes are pursued in this paper. Firstly, we discuss how a new research method: the trade-off model was used in the context of a major project, focussing particularly on the problems encountered and how these were solved. Secondly, we...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Dick Westwood, Peter J. Hayes

September 1, 1974

Public policy and measuring the 'open-ended' situation

The object of this paper is to illustrate how research can assist in the field of public policy. The problems inherent in measuring open-ended situations where demand can be infinite are discussed. The need to use a variety of secondary measures to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Mike Arnott, Emer Rodnight

September 1, 1974

Clustering by product usage

Segmentation is one of several multivariate analysis methods which can be applied to market research data; it can be carried out in several ways. This paper discusses briefly some of the possible techniques. The purposes of segmentation which we have...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Simon Broadbent, Susanna Segnit

September 1, 1974

The telephone in consumer research

If someone asks for a recommendation on interview technique the consumer researcher will probably mention personal, postal and telephone in that order. If someone ask specifically about telephone interviewing the researcher will probably say "quick...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: David Miln, David Stewart-Hunter, Len J. Marchant

September 1, 1974

Research for public transport investment

This paper discusses two major aspects of research for public transport investment. These are the provision of comprehensive and detailed journey data by all modes of transport for individual origin/destination areas, and the measurement of...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Mervyn Flack

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

September 1, 1974

It's all very well in theory...

This paper examines some of the practical problems facing the survey researcher in the motoring field. It uses the example of three specific projects to illustrate ways in which such problems have been tackled by an adaptive, innovatory or flexible...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Gerry E. Levens

September 1, 1974

A case history of TvTimes

It is my intention to review the editorial research carried out for TVTimes since 1968, and to attempt to assess how and where it contributed to the development of the magazine. In the six years of its life, TvTimes has changed in many ways and of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Alwyn Wise

June 15, 1974

Editorial research in preparing a decision on the merger of two weeklies

A publisher sold two weekly magazines whose editorial content was different and whose readers were supposedly different both sociologically and psychologically. But economically it was no longer possible to continue publishing the two magazines...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Editorial Research In The Publishing Industry

Author: Robert Gijs

June 15, 1974