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Questionnaire monotony endangers the comparability of results (German)

Monotony and its side-effects have been dealt with in other areas. But monotony is powerful enough to adulterate the results. Noelle Neumann proved that the influence of monotony was visible even in simple inquiries, for example when ascertaining...

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

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1976

Comments on the paper by Mr. Wren and Mr. Taylor

As Wren and Taylor explained international comparisons might give ideas about differences between countries but they have to be handled with caution. They are a first step towards detecting gaps within markets.

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Practice And Problems In International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: Volker Just

May 3, 1971

Case history of a 16-country survey

In 1969 the European Editions of The Reader's Digest conducted a multi-country survey in 16 countries of Western Europe. I propose to tell you something of how we did it: the problems we met, the actions we took and what we think we learned....

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Multi-Country Research

Author: Edward W. Whitley

June 15, 1971

The meaning of "comparability" in multi-country research and how to achieve it

The basic themes of this paper are firstly that the idea of 'comparability' in relation to multi-country surveys needs to be examined specifically in relation to the market situation, and secondly that achieving comparability in this sense depends...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Robert L. Day

September 1, 1966

Comparability

I have referred to comparability in a very limited sense, namely the exact replication of research methods across a number of countries. I have done so because comparability is so often discussed in these terms, or because it is felt - whether...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Multi-Country Research

Author: Paul Howard Berent

June 15, 1971

Some problems in multi-country advertising research

In this paper I will describe two multi-country advertising research studies which have been carried out by my company during the past three years. These studies have highlighted a number of problems and have taught us some lessons about how to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Multi-Country Research

Author: Peter A. Rusby

Company: ESSO

June 15, 1971

Print media and television in the SummoScanner

This paper describes how far SUMMO has been able to go with its attempts to cover as many medium types as possible within one single source research instrument while maintaining a high degree of between- media comparability; it also outlines the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1988: Media And Media Research

Author: Harold de Bock

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1988

Should multi-country advertising research be universal or unique?

Every time we are asked to do cross-national advertising research, we must worry about comparability of data across countries. Unfortunately, we still do not know the situations and conditions under which we can clearly justify a universal approach...

Catalogue: AMA/ESOMAR Conference 1979: It Won't Work Here

Author: Jagdish N. Sheth

March 1, 1979

Exploration

This paper is in two parts. Part one is concerned with a consideration of exploratory research techniques, in particular, 'depth' or intensive interviewing and group interviewing. It is argued that if expertly conducted, they can be extremely...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: Peter Sampson

June 15, 1969