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Quality in research

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

Quality in research (French)

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

Practical considerations of the technique of telephone interviewing

The paper concerns with the practical aspects of telephone interviewing, but does not attempt to enter discussion concerning the characteristics of the telephone owning population. The authors have had experience over the past two years of using the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1974: The Challenges Facing Marketing Research

Authors: Derek Simonds, Gordon Haymes

September 1, 1974

Experience of a computer system for the quality control of interviewers

This paper describes a method of using the computer, as a stage of the checking process, to look for interviewers, who have cheated or deviated from the specified instructions. The method is simple and has often been recommended, but to our knowledge...

Catalogue: Seminar 1973: Fieldwork, Sampling And Questionnaire Design

Authors: R. King, P. Trotman

Company: Nestlé

October 1, 1973

Selection and training of interviewers

The methods of interviewer selection in current use are examined, reference being made to those described by Dr. Noelle Neumann and Mr. Paul Berent in their papers read at the Esomar Congress in Evian in 1962. The interviewer selection methods used...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1969

Author: Joan Macfarlane Smith

June 15, 1969

Interviewer recruitment and training

My belief in interviewer selection and training in the simplest terms t we spend a lot of time in studying the problem before we embark on a survey s we take a lot of trouble over sample design and over preparing and testing a questionnaire! we spend...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1962: Research Into Certain Advertising Problems

Author: Paul Howard Berent

June 15, 1962

The case of a centralized interviewer organisation

The structure of the interviewer organisation should follow; from the functions this organisation has to perform. These functions are of a very special kind, not comparable with other, occupational functions. They are also quite different from those...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1962: Research Into Certain Advertising Problems

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

June 15, 1962

Quantification in motivation research (French)

The main aim of this exposition was to show that the absence of quantitatively verified, results is not inherent in motivation research. On the other hand, and we stress this point, we do not think that quantification is an absolute necessity for all...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1959

Author: Emeric Deutsch

June 15, 1959

Quantification in motivation research

The main aim of this exposition was to show that the absence of quantitatively verified, results is not inherent in motivation research. On the other hand, and we stress this point, we do not think that quantification is an absolute necessity for all...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1959

Author: Emeric Deutsch

June 15, 1959