Resources Library by ANA

Mirror, mirror on the wall

If we define the client as anyone without whom a business wouldn’t exist, there is a group of people that are very important to marketing research but are ironically overlooked. In this presentation we treat the respondents with the same...

Catalogue: Congress 2015: Revelations

Authors: Hetta Bramley, Kristin Hickey

October 1, 2015

Social science research and field work in Afghanistan

Conducting quality research in a country as vast and insecure as Afghanistan is not without its challenges, i.e. high security risks (Taliban), violence, intimidation, corruption, ethnic, linguistic and gender differences, extensive illiteracy,...

Catalogue: Congress 2012: Accelerating Excellence

Author: Rafiq Ullah Kakar

Company: Opinion Research Center of Afghanistan (ORCA)

September 13, 2012

Looking under the hood of CSR

Companies are investing in it, consumers demanding it, pundits applauding it . . . but what does Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) really mean: to consumers as opposed to shareholders? Does it encompass fair pay to women? Reducing the carbon...

Catalogue: Congress 2009: Leading The Way

Author: Martin Oxley

Companies: BuzzBack Market Research, Nestlé

September 22, 2009

Doing it

This presentation reviews the results of a fascinating study finding that work experience in field or data entry improves claimed future intent to consider MR as a career. Doing it matters more than talking about it. Talking about it shifts...

Catalogue: Asia Pacific 2009: Competing On A World Stage

Author: Caz Tebbutt Dennis

Company: Tebbutt Research

April 7, 2009

A socio-economic standard system of classification of respondents

Brazil may well be the country with the largest experience of using a uniform socio-economic classification system in the world. It adopted one such system in 1970, as a result of the recommendation proposed by a panel nominated by the National...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Handbook Of Market And Opinion Research

Author: Pergentino Mendes de Almeida

September 1, 1998

From passivity to interaction?

The paper raises questions about the adequacy of conventional qualitative research techniques for the future. A change in orientation and practice is needed if we are to develop a meaningful understanding of consumer responses to the advanced brand...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1996: Changing Business Dynamics

Authors: Christine Restall, Richard Auton

September 1, 1996

IT as a strategy to manage the process of quantitative research

In this paper the process of large-scale quantitative research is examined with the aim of finding ways to reduce costs and improve quality. The paper focuses on the role IT plays in fieldwork preparation, fieldwork management, data collection and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1995: Information Technology- How Can Research Keep Up With The Peace Of Change

Author: Niels J. Grommé

Company: NIPO

January 1, 1995

Random digit dialling crosses the Atlantic

We have devised and developed a new method for creating random digit dialling samples for telephone surveys in our agency. The method itself, which we have named ‘Number Propagation’, is very simple. We take the phone numbers of respondents...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: Ruth Deacon, Martin van Staveren

September 1, 1992

No unexplored territory left on the German map (German)

Only four months after the breach of the Berlin Wall, the Allensbach Institute had already set up its own interviewer network in the GDR, with approximately 600 interviewers recruited personally or by mail. Even before the first free elections in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Michael Hallemann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1991