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Conducting research amongst small sectors of consumer markets

This paper discusses a problem that is frequently encountered in consumer market research. It is the requirement to obtain 'usable' samples of small minority market sectors where cost and time constraints exist. The author has not found the answer to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

May 1, 1981

The evaluation of below-the-line activity by ad hoc field research

The author has attempted to show that conducting ad hoc survey research to determine the effectiveness of below- the-line activities is a viable but difficult field to work in. Once a decision has been made as to what performance criterion variables...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Peter Sampson

June 15, 1980

Data collection approaches for old and new research techniques

In recent years a number of new data collection approaches have emerged. These include quite new questioning formats as well as modifications to established data collection practices. These developments have occurred because: 1. Research thinking in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1977: Ways And New Ways Of Data Collection

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

November 1, 1977

Improving the efficiency of research methods used in advertising tracking studies

This paper examines some implications of tracking studies and problems that arise in seeking to obtain measurable, meaningful shifts over time. Case history material is presented based on a three-wave study conducted in the UK on behalf of the Tea...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Peter Sampson, Keith Marshall

Company: Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1977

Consumer behaviour prediction and the modelling approach

In this paper, traditional methods used by market researchers to predict consumer behaviour are criticised and the argument put forward that a formal modelling approach is the only way that reliable predictions can be made. Such an approach may...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Peter Sampson

September 1, 1974

Some observations on the seminar

Two problems were not satisfactorily dealt with. The first is, "How do you sell the sophisticated techniques of segmentation and typology to management?" The best suggestion came from John Knecht. "You get an American professor to sell for you." The...

Catalogue: Seminar 1972: Segmentation And Typology

Author: Peter Sampson

June 15, 1972

Attitude measurement and behaviour prediction in market research using a priori psychological models of consumer behaviour

This paper reviews the evidence, from social psychology and market research, for the suggestion that from a knowledge of an individual’s attitudes, the individual's behaviour can be predicted. It looks at psychologists' and market researchers'...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1971: From Experience To Inovation

Author: Peter Sampson

June 15, 1971

The evaluation of below-the-line activity by ad hoc field research

The author has attempted to show that conducting ad hoc survey research to determine the effectiveness of below-the-line activities is a viable, but difficult field to work in. Once a decision has been made as to what performance criterion variables...

Catalogue: Seminar 1971: Below-The-Line Activities

Author: Peter Sampson

May 19, 1971

Comments on dr. Haldane's paper

I am happy to say that today we have entered the age of reason, enlightenment and science, where research and television programmes are concerned. Much of the credit must go to Dr. Haldane and the ITA, for instigating research into 'the state of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1970: Attitude And Motivation Research

Author: Peter Sampson

February 1, 1970