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Pre-classifying consumers

This paper discusses current and future developments in the ways pre-classification can be used. The paper particularly examines the use of small area statistics linked to other data bases. A suggestion is also made as to how pre- classification can...

Catalogue: Seminar 1982: Classifying Consumers

Author: Bill Blyth

June 15, 1982

From pencil to PEN

This paper is about Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) and in particular looks at one technology - the pen computer - and its application and use in the largest market research company in the United Kingdom. The purpose of this paper is...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1997: Learning From The Future

Authors: Bill Blyth, Greg Smith

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1997

Developing speech recognition applications for market research

This paper describes progress to date on a Government supported programme to evaluate the potential applications of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to market and survey research. The paper reviews the growth of telephone research in Europe in...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.6: Market Research And Information Technology

Authors: Heather Piper, Bill Blyth

August 1, 1998

Developing speech recognition applications for market research

This paper describes progress to date on a government supported programme to evaluate the potential applications of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to market and survey research. The paper reviews the growth of telephone research in Europe in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1994: Success Through Adaptation

Authors: Bill Blyth, Heather Piper

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1994

New tunes from an old bottle

This paper concentrates on AGB's services to the Food and Grocery industries, where there are two main panels - the Television Consumer Audit (TCA) for packaged groceries and the Attwood Household Panel for fresh produce. In particular it focuses on...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: Improving The Use Of Consumer Panels For Marketing Decisions

Authors: John N. H. Whitaker, Bill Blyth

June 15, 1987

Towards a new evaluation of grassland nutrition

Fisons have available a wide range of basic quantitative data on the use of fertilizer on grassland, covering a period of 20 years. But such data is largely restricted to analyses by size of farm and region. To gain a deeper insight into the...

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

Authors: Derek Harris, Ronald E. Walpole, Bill Blyth

June 15, 1976

Efficiency in sample design

The purpose of this paper is to discuss within the current context of non-probability sampling, the derivation of criteria for determining efficient survey design, and within that, the effects of sampling error and bias in relation to other sources...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1978: Value For Money In Market And Social Research

Author: Bill Blyth

September 1, 1978

Calibration and description for the 21st century global telecom challenge

This paper discusses the issues that global telecommunications market research needs to address. It describes the need for a consistent approach that encompasses a core data set that meets international, regional and local requirements.It discusses...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Telecommunications Marketing Conference 2004

Authors: Tacis Gavoyannis, Bill Blyth

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

November 7, 2004

Potential effects of single-source research automation on future brand marketing and advertising research

This work has been undertaken to evaluate the desireability of single- source. In doing so a distinction has been made between:(a) single-source used for target marketing on the basis of data collection techniques(b) single-source used in adlab...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/JMA/ARF Conference 1988: Innovation In Marketing, Advertising And Research

Authors: Robert van Gestel, Bill Blyth, Alfred E. Bronner, Maarten Hartsuiker, Dick Valstar

June 15, 1988