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Designing market research studies

In this chapter, we examine how market researchers set about designing market research studies. Market researchers will rarely be able to pursue their ideal’ design, so it is a process of compromise. Decisions have to be made about what degree...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: David Smith

September 1, 1998

Classification

Since the earliest days of marketing and social research, attempts have been made to group populations and survey respondents into classes: groupings which discriminate between people in ways which are considered likely to be relevant to the research...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 1, 1998

Questionnarie design

In order to clarify our thinking about questionnaire design, it will be helpful to break down the issues associated with it into distinct groupings. A useful four way classification of these groups is as follows: a) meeting research objectives b)...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Authors: Sharon Miller, Graham Read

September 1, 1998

Beyond old and new

As more qualitative approaches become available, through imports and innovation, and as persuasive qualitative agencies tend to brilliantly argue for their specific methods, there seems to be a need for some clarification. The view that a given...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1988

Author: Olwen H. Wolfe

September 1, 1988

Coordinating methods in multinational qualitative research

Successful and effective multinational qualitative research strongly depends on coordinating methods and styles. Coordinating agencies today, must adopt a sensitive but strong, flexible but sturdy approach and work in cooperation with the local...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: International Marketing Reserarch

Author: Clara Origlia

Company: Market Dynamics International srl

June 15, 1988

Introduction

This section, as in earlier editions, concentrates on marketing research techniques. While the section is aimed principally at practitioners and students of market research, it may also prove useful to the market research user as a guide to the...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Robert M. Worcester

August 1, 1986

Some problems in collecting continuous diary panel data from a rapidly changing universe

The Baby Panel is an example of the panel technique being very successfully adapted to measure a market where buyers remain for a relatively short period of time and yet during that time their characteristics change dramatically. One might summarise...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Panels

Author: John R. Lawford

June 15, 1972

Segmentation and cluster analysis

It has become commonplace to note the growing use of sophisticated techniques in processing market research: cluster analysis and segmentation analysis, as well as factor analysis, discriminant analysis, canonical analysis, multivariate analysis of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Author: Joseph Lion

June 15, 1972

Discussion group IV

On the subject of editorial research the group mentioned two things: first, the difficulty that researchers have in communicating with editors; and secondly the dilemma between satisfying objective management needs and the political objectives of the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Marketing And Research In The Publishing Industry

Authors: Friedrich Wendt, Michael D. Ryan

June 15, 1972