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Towards a new view of evaluation

Determining 'quality' in media research often assigns much influence to survey response rates. Increasing scientific evidence suggests a more sophisticated viewpoint about survey quality is needed.An alternative framework for evaluating the quality...

Catalogue: WM3 2007

Authors: Ed Cohen, Ricardo Gomez-Insausti, Robert Groves

Company: Nielsen

June 3, 2007

Drop-down, radio buttons, or fill-in-the-blank?

When it comes to Web surveys, the type of attribute rating scale used does matter. Based upon data collected during the Burke Strategic Consulting Group's recent Workforce Perspectives® study, this paper shows how responses to drop-down box, radio...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Authors: Allen Hogg, Jaci Jarrett-Masztal

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 23, 2001

The research industry's waning relationship with the respondent

This quantitative study of 802 survey responders and non-responders from around the world examines the general public’s acceptance of survey research. Key findings include: the importance of incentivization is increasing; poorly constructed...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2001: Marketing Transformation

Authors: William MacElroy, Ed Erickson, Mary Monroe, Donna Victoria, Fred Bové

September 23, 2001

Raising diary response among young people

Response rates are among the hottest topics in the research industry. Panel research, in particular, is directly confronted with the effects of declining response rates. In the Netherlands, one of the hardest groups to get co-operation from is young...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Author: Marion Appel

Company: GfK

April 1, 2001

Comparison of two radio diary methodologies

This paper describes the results of a parallel test of two methods of collecting radio tuning data with different diary designs. One diary design uses a pre-printed quarter hour approach where there is a row for each quarter hour in the day and the...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Author: Eva Tolkunow

April 1, 2001

Internet VS. telephone data collection

With the increasing use of the Internet as a medium for survey data collection, survey program managers might be encouraged to transition programs to the Internet that have previously been conducted using the telephone. They might also consider using...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: Cary J. Nadel, Allen Hogg, Jeff Miller

Company: Burke, Inc.

September 1, 2000

Traditional VS. Web

This paper examines the differences between telephone and internet interviewing. In particular, it compares responses from a survey that used both traditional telephone interviews and the internet. Using a long established panel, this paper looks at...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: James Heisler, Robert McKane

September 1, 2000

Pushing the envelope

For these reasons, the agency conducted the following study in the summer of 1999 to explore the feasibility of data collection via the Internet and to compare the response rates and survey results obtained using three alternative Web-based...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.10: Marketing Research in a .com Environment

Authors: Andrew Elder, Tony Incalcatera

June 20, 2000

Pop-up surveys

The pop-up survey has been one of the most positive contributions to web site research in the brief history of Internet research. The technique became widely used after the pioneering work of Micael Dahlen (1998) on the Swedish web site Passagen. So...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.10: Marketing Research in a .com Environment

Author: Pete Comley

June 15, 2000