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Sampling

This chapter sets out to explain the concepts behind the use of sampling in market research. It outlines some of the main options available to the survey designer and discusses the way sampling is carried out in practice. More complex topics are only...

Catalogue: Consumer Market Research Handbook

Author: Martin Alan Collins

August 1, 1986

Agricultural research in perspective and in context

Firstly the paper argues the low acceptance and low status of market research in too many of our potential client companies, posing problems of lack of funds in what is a more expensive sector to research. There is great need for education of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1985: Agricultural Marketing Research in Europe

Author: John R. M. Thom

Company: KANTAR TNS Malaysia

June 15, 1985

Danes' attitudes to Norway as a holiday resort

The main purpose of the study on which this paper is based is to investigate the Danes' attitudes and behaviour to Norway as a holiday resort (summer and winter respectively). The main purpose of this paper is partly to present some of the main...

Catalogue: Seminar 1983: The importance Of Research In The Tourism Industry

Authors: Knut J. Tallhaug, Nils Röhme

June 15, 1983

Industrial sampling

There is no doubt that the quality or rather the reliability with which findings of any type of market research can be translated into practical use, is heavily dependent on the final sample that has been obtained. The sample directly deriving from...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Robert J. Stegeman

May 1, 1981

Rare target groups

Finding samples representing segments of the general population when the rate of strike (percentage of the segment in total population) is inferior to 20%, is becoming a common performance asked from the practitioner by client marketing companies....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Alain Zwilling

May 1, 1981

Conducting research amongst small sectors of consumer markets

This paper discusses a problem that is frequently encountered in consumer market research. It is the requirement to obtain 'usable' samples of small minority market sectors where cost and time constraints exist. The author has not found the answer to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Peter Sampson

Company: Burke, Inc.

May 1, 1981

Problems of sampling, interviewing and grossing procedures for large-scale representative surveys in industrial markets

This paper reviews the main problems and their character and presents examples of the way they have been tackled by Industrial Market Research by means of case study. Specifically we address the problems of: 1. universe definition; 2. sample design;...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Authors: Bryan E. Atkin, Tore Moritz Larsen

May 1, 1981

Sampling businessmen

This paper reviews the sampling and fieldwork techniques of five Businessman Readership Surveys conducted in the UK during 1973-1980. It's objective is to present in outline, and discuss, the sampling approaches designed for surveying a "large"...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Erhard Meier

May 1, 1981

Tracking the elusive innovator

This study created and implemented a new method for locating and profiling innovative consumers. The innovators were identified as such by virtue of ownership of products warranted or given status as innovations by the consumer sample researched....

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Emma Auer

May 1, 1981