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The theory and practice of index construction, illustrated with an index of anomie

The concern with Quality of Life and the large numbers of social indicators that are being identified as relevant to quality of life, raises political and ethical questions in respect of choices that must be made from among them. The necessity to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1973: The Application Of Market And Social Research For More Efficient Planning

Author: E.J. Van Goudoever

September 1, 1973

The psychological index of the costs of living

For some years - and in many countries - an attempt has been made to become acquainted with the financial aspirations of individuals and to measure their psychological needs. In order to do this, the same question is regularly asked of samples of the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Conference 1963

Author: Claude Goguel

June 15, 1963

The index of consumer sentiment: Another look at the data and some methodological improvements

The Index of Consumer Sentiment (ICS) can be used to explain and forecast changes in the aggregate course of the economy. Its explanatory as well as its predictive power appears to be relatively low. Partly this might be caused by some methodological...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Hans Kasper, Ton Kuylen

June 15, 1984

The index method

In this paper, a classification method (the index method) is proposed which aims to discriminate between members of two groups (e.g. buyers and non-buyers). The index method is compared with two-group discriminant analysis which is a standard and...

Catalogue: EMAC/ESOMAR Symposium 1984: Methodological Advanced In Marketing Research In Theory And Practice

Authors: Leendert de Jonge, Walle M. Oppedijk van Veen

Company: Philips International

June 15, 1984

Data control's answer to marketing requirements

We have chosen to illustrate the theme "Prom market research to media plan" with three actual application which are amongst the most interesting of their kind, of the computer to the marketing process at the "plan" level. The diagram shows the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Jean Francois Canguilhem

June 15, 1972

Order form research for trade conscious marketing (German)

Now is a common practice to measure the degree of availability of a brand at the point of sale, scarcely anyone has given thought to investigating how this availability comes about and what factor influence it. In this case, the order form is not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Author: Manfred Schürmeyer

Company: Nielsen

September 1, 1974

The IHA retail trade index

In this highly competitive situation the "IHA Retail Trade Index" provides every retailer with information about: - the size of the various markets; - their and their competitors' share of the market; - the importance of various product groups within...

Catalogue: Seminar 1974: Management Information For Retail Organisations

Author: M. Gautschi

April 1, 1974

Data control's answer to marketing requirements (French)

We have chosen to illustrate the theme "Prom market research to media plan" with three actual application which are amongst the most interesting of their kind, of the computer to the marketing process at the "plan" level. The diagram shows the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1972: Marketing In A Changing World

Author: Jean Francois Canguilhem

June 15, 1972

Forecasting indexes

In 1970, we, at IFOP/ETMAR, worked on perfecting the computation of indexes from opinion surveys. By experience, we knew how important psychological phenomena reveal to explain the evolution of economic realities such as the successful launching of a...

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

Author: B. Roche

Company: IFOP

August 1, 1971