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The need for an international television audience measurement

We will more and more have a need for audience measurements at a multinational level. But there are great differences between the methods used for this measurement in the various countries of Europe. It is then difficult to compare and to aggregate...

Catalogue: Seminar 1987: The Application Of Research To Broadcasting Decisions

Author: Jacques Durand

Company: Mediametrie

June 15, 1987

Statistics and significance testing

In this chapter, the emphasis will be on the ‘analysis and interpretation’ aspects of statistics dealing mainly with simple descriptive measures calculated from survey data and the testing of hypotheses about those data. The more advanced...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Paul Harris

August 1, 1986

A third world experiment in opinion leader identification

Longtitudinal and other studies covering almost 20 years suggest that traditional perceptions concerning the identity of opinion leaders in third world countries may well be wrong. Despite striking differences in wealth, income and education within...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Opinion Polls

Author: Andrew Templeton

June 15, 1986

The contribution survey research can make to the decision-making process

The following paper reports on a dialogue held between the President of the German Constitutional Court and the author. This dialogue was set in motion indirectly by an article the author published in 1979 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1983

The contribution survey research can make to the decision-making process (German)

The following paper reports on a dialogue held between the President of the German Constitutional Court and the author. This dialogue was set in motion indirectly by an article the author published in 1979 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1983: Demonstrating The Contribution Of Research

Author: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1983

Non-smoking and non-drinking habits towards 1990

Consumption patterns and motivations are constantly changing with the complex developments in society as a whole. In the present study recent trends in the consumption of tobacco and alcohol are analysed. Data from surveys measuring use and non- use...

Catalogue: Papers 1982: Social Research And Prediction

Author: Lars Haglund

June 15, 1982

Terminals versus Minis

Thus a firm 'producing' marketing studies from survey data tries to control all of the different phases: conceptualization, fieldwork, data processing and interpretation of the final results. Our goal here is to study the question of the data...

Catalogue: Paper 1978: Analysis of Data

Author: Bernard Morin

February 1, 1978

Questionnaire monotony endangers the comparability of results (German)

Monotony and its side-effects have been dealt with in other areas. But monotony is powerful enough to adulterate the results. Noelle Neumann proved that the influence of monotony was visible even in simple inquiries, for example when ascertaining...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Author: Erp Ring

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1976

On the limits of reliability in social and commercial surveys

There has been ample documentation over the past years of the various sources of error in surveys. This paper reviews some of the more important work presented by academic, government and commercial organisations. These sources of error in commercial...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: Benjamin Lipstein

August 1, 1975