Resources Library by ANA

Creating a sustainable future for MROCs

Our industry has embraced MROCS as a new tool. Whereas most researchers still celebrate the richness this phenomenon offers, others are already pushing the "cost-efficiency" button to squeeze in as many projects as possible. Already we have seen...

Catalogue: Qualitative 2013: Brilliant Transformations

Authors: Jos Vink, Michelle de Laat, Anke Bergmans

November 20, 2013

Best of both worlds?

Online access panels have enabled cheap survey research to proliferate in the past decade. However, the results obtained from these convenience panels can be biased and unrepresentative due to the sampling methods employed. Sample matching against a...

Catalogue: Congress 2013: Think Big

Authors: Pete Doe, Robert Smith

Company: Nielsen

September 26, 2013

CSI Berlin

Sampling in the online research world is its Achilles Heel. Whilst we remain reliant on access panels that they are essentially fronts for a relatively limited set of online properties and sources we can never claim scientific rigour and true...

Catalogue: Online Research 2010: E-Universe

Author: Kees de Jong

Company: Research Now SSI

October 19, 2010

Using global online panels

Over the past few years, online research has become an invaluable tool in the toolkit of researchers across the world. By utilising online access panels, researchers have been able to conduct research faster than ever before. They have been able to...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2008

Authors: Charles Pearson, Heaven Zhang, Rich Ridlen, Emma Smith, Andrew Cooper

Company: Research Now SSI

April 9, 2008

Duplication and multisource panel recruitment

This paper sheds a first light on the question whether or not the recruitment type of access panel members as well as duplication (i.e. respondents belonging to multiple panels) really makes a difference in terms of the quality of the research data...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2007

Authors: Sam Berteloot, Kristof De Wulf

October 28, 2007

Respondent authenticity

It has long been an unsolved problem of online market research conducted by means of Access panel sample surveys, that there has been no possibility to verify whether a participant in a survey is really the same who was requested to take part in the...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2007

Authors: Christoph Irmer, Bernd Wachter

Company: PSYMA GROUP AG

February 15, 2007

The effect of conditioning when re-interviewing

A typology of panel conditioning effects and an empirical study examining the phenomenon are presented. The experiment on panel conditioning using a typical tracking study questionnaire shows that high frequency repeat interviews lead to a small...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Authors: Clive Nancarrow, Trixie Cartwright

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

October 8, 2006

Panel and data quality

A common forecast argues a cadre of professional respondents threaten the validity and reliability of results from market research- especially Internet-based market research using online access panels.While usefully drawing attention to the issue of...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Authors: Holland Hofman Brown, Renee Smith

Company: Harris Interactive (Europe)

October 8, 2006

How not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg

This paper describes the latest thinking in the field of psychology relating to human motivation and how this may be used to inform the market research industry in its quest to reduce non-response.It reviews and contextualises the history of...

Catalogue: Panel Research 2006

Author: Pete Cape

Company: Research Now SSI

October 8, 2006