Resources Library by ANA

Towards an open-defecation-free, clean India

Diarrhoea is responsible for 300,000 childdeaths every year. Indiastill has a total of 6-7 Million undernourished children. Poorsanitation conditions played a big role in this.This case study is about:1. Research to transform sanitation...

Catalogue: Congress 2019: The Global Data & Insights Summit

Authors: AV Surya, Saptarshi Guha

Companies: KANTAR TNS Malaysia, Kantar

September 8, 2019

Research World (December 2017)

What role does research have in understanding and interpreting social change? Can the profession measure social impact and help decision makers understand what they need to do? Where and how can research help build a better society?

Catalogue: Research World 2017

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

December 16, 2017

Research for local authorities

This paper analyses the growth of research commissioned by local authorities in Britain and how these have been used to stimulate changes in working practices within the relevant authority. It looks at the political and financial background against...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1987

Author: Brian Gosschalk

September 1, 1987

The utilization of social policy research

Existing doubts about the viability of applied social science notwithstanding, systematic, empirical analyses of the utilization of social research are virtually absent. Based upon data from interviews with social researchers and policymakers about...

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

Authors: Mark van de Vall, Cheryl Bolas

March 1, 1979

Public views and social policy

Social research can be seen as one way of establishing a closer link between public views and the decisions of policy makers. Its main advantage over other kinds of public participation in policy formulation is its ability to reflect a more...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Authors: Tim S. Bowles, Pamela Mills

December 1, 1978

Research and social policy

This paper examines the role of the research worker in the formation of social policies. It explains the background to this by stressing that, in the UK at least, social policies, unlike economic policies, have no unifying framework. It also stresses...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Social Research

Author: Eric J. Thompson

December 1, 1977

The New Jersey experiment

The purpose of this paper is to use the New Jersey Experiment (NJE) as a case study context in which to discuss the special problems social policy experimentation poses for the survey research community. Section I presents a brief overview of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Cheri T. Marshall

August 1, 1975

Traffic re-routing

This paper is concerned with a study commissioned by a local authority in London to check reactions of residents to a scheme by which traffic re-routing eased congestion on most roads at the inevitable expense of increased congestion on some....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Bob Lane, Leonard R. England

September 1, 1974