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Paradata

The web provides researchers with a gold mine. Every click, response, page movement and delay can be logged and used for analysis. The amount of data that can be captured from web surveys is vast and comprehensive. This paper aims to explain the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Author: Andrew Jeavons

February 11, 2001

Speed, power and efficiency

This paper presents a case study involving a leading pharmaceutical information company that uses internet-based research as a means of gathering primary data from physicians and other subjects. The company, MORPACE Pharma Group, is now moving toward...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Net Effects 2001

Authors: Karen J. Partridge, Allen Kamer

February 11, 2001

Qualitative computing for marketing and business

In business and marketing, qualitative research is needed but rarely accepted. Data from focus group discussions, case histories or interviews requires qualitative analysis if the researcher is to discover new meanings in accounts or interpret...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 2000: The Impact Of Networking

Authors: Tom Richards, Lyn Richards

September 1, 2000

Designing questions for children

To put this paper into its correct context: ‘should we really be conducting quantitative research with children?’The answer is that for all practical purposes we cannot. We have to accept and recognise the limitations of the data we can...

Catalogue: New Monograph Series Vol.9: Researching Youth

Author: Paul A. Mayes

August 1, 2000

Killing the golden goose

This paper explores the relationship between the research industry and its primary source of data the general public. Drawing on evidence from a variety of sources the paper suggests that to ensure that we obtain and continue to obtain high...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Author: Michael Warren

September 1, 1998

Focusing knowledge on the issues

This paper argues that information alone is not enough. Only when meaning is added to information does it become knowledge. Knowledge needs to be stored and accessed by relevant valid constructs in order to be able to say to clients: “the answer...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1998: The Power Of Knowledge

Authors: Jean Mcdougall, Sue Gardiner

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

September 1, 1998

Quality through technology

This paper however focuses on ways that CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing) when linked with other technological developments can bring the same benefits to our operational departments. It describes how we can gain increased efficiency...

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

Author: Jon Hulbert

August 1, 1998

The effect of computer-assisted interviewing on data quality

We start our review with a taxonomy of different types of computer-assisted interviewing and a discussion of data quality. Next we present a model of the factors that may lead to differences in data quality between computer assisted and traditional...

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

Authors: D. De Leeuw, Joop J. Hox, Ger Snijkers

August 1, 1998

A new generation Of CAPI

Nowadays new equipment, new software with multi-media features and new data-input techniques are available for computer-aided personal interviews (CAPI): pen and voice recording. We call these small and light pen-pads with keyboards the CAPI...

Catalogue: Seminar 1997: Do we control IT or are we IT's slave?

Author: Gerd Meier

Company: GfK

January 1, 1997