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An exercise in trade-off

The paper demonstrates how a very simple approach was applied to a particular problem of 'Trade Off'. As part of a large scale survey into the public knowledge of, and attitudes towards Local Authority Financing, Research Surveys of Great Britain...

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

Author: John R. Lawford

September 1, 1976

Forecasting capital expenditure on machinery and prefabricated buildings

This short paper summarises the main findings on some experimental research, particularly for the four year period 1960-1963. The paper will describe briefly, the thinking behind the approach, the method used to collect the information, what the data...

Catalogue: Seminar 1968: Market Research On Agriculture And Farmers

Author: W. Miller Crichton

May 1, 1968

Insights in times of COVID-19

ESOMAR, as the global voice for the data, insights, and market research industry, has been guiding theindustry in the undeniable challenging times that the world has been going through for a number of weeksnow. This report is another effort to...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Publications

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

May 26, 2020

Does media research affect media planning

The following paper considers why we need media research, looks at relevant anticipated environmental changes, describes the current research and, having defined what the objectives are, suggests an outline for the requirements of media research in...

Catalogue: Seminar 1984: Media Research- Does It Really Affect Media Planning?

Author: Doug L. Thornes

April 11, 1984

'Below-the-line spending' the need for understanding and control

SPAR has been designing, implementing, evaluating and executing promotional programs since 1967. Our approach has been successfully implemented in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. In the UK, through a joint agreement, AGB...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Below-The-Line And Sponsoring

Author: William H. Bartels

November 6, 1985

The use of attitude data in the short-term forecasting of durable expenditure

This paper outlines some current research being conducted at the London Business School, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust in conjunction with the Gallup Poll, into how market survey data can be used to measure the state of consumer expectations and...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1970: The Practical Application of Market Research

Author: Gordon Heald

September 1, 1970

Market forecast models for consumer durables

In this paper some methods will be described which are being used for forecasting markets of consumer durable goods. The models will be explained for both initial and replacement demand separately. As market forecasts are being used together with...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1970: The Practical Application of Market Research

Author: Peter L. F. de Jong

Company: Philips International

September 1, 1970

Children's income and expenditure

The paper below describes a survey conducted in 1976 to assess and examine the sources of income and the size and nature of expenditure of children aged 5-15 in Great Britain. The method chosen was the use of self-completion diaries in which children...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Researching Children

Author: Wendy Law

October 1, 1978

The marketing management of research and development

There are many difficulties to be overcome when the attempt is made to introduce market research techniques into R&D. It is not only the resistance of technically minded scientists and managements, but the subject matter itself is full of pitfalls....

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1966

Author: Max K. Adler

September 1, 1966