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The launch of the Harmony collection in Italy

This paper shows the possible application to certain publishing sectors of some Market Research methodologies already tested in the Marketing of consumer goods. In this particular case, the Market Research programme carried out before launching the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Publishing in the 1980's

Authors: Guido Colonna, Arnaldo Aisa, Camillo Dagradi

June 15, 1981

A sample drawn from a transient and/or briefly resident population, estimate of the universe and expansion of sampled results in a survey of users of the Ticino park

The area bordering the Ticino river, in Italy, has been recognized as a zone of particular naturalistic interest and, as such, placed under the protection of a special official body. Some years after the institution of the Park, the "Consorzio Parco...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Authors: Lucio Casaroli, C. De Rosa, M. Engel, G. Spinelli, Ferruccio Lusardi

Company: Demoskopea

May 1, 1981

Ten years of media research and planning in Italy

This paper will review 10 years of media research in Italy and then proceed to state the situation of media planning techniques and the still unresolved problem areas, which are mainly the following:A. The target group;B. How to structure vehicle...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Media Measurement And Media Choice

Author: Vittorio M. Meroni

June 15, 1980

Socio-psychological characteristics of book-buyers in the book stores in comparison with book club members

Over the last 4-5 years there has been, in Italy, a rapid growth of book clubs as against a fairly contained growth of book sales in the book stores. This rapid growth has been caused by a type of public which is generally different from that of Book...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Arnaldo Aisa

November 1, 1979

Psychographics and its practical application to the publishing business

This paper shows the findings of the first psychographics conducted in Italy on a national sample representative of the adult population ageing from 18 to 65 years and the practical application to a family weekly magazine which has a wide...

Catalogue: Seminar 1979: Publishing And The Communications Industry

Author: Costantino Jannacone

November 1, 1979

Control techniques in a sample survey

The analysis described in this report concerns the control techniques used in sample surveys , and is based on a ten-year experience made by field work in this area and specifically applied to the survey on the Italian Periodical Press Readership by...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1979: The Challenge Of Eighties

Authors: Angela Amoroso, Costantino Jannacone

June 15, 1979

Time perception as a social indicator

This paper deals with the concept of time perception and with specific research carried out to assess and measure some of the problems related to the temporal orientation of a city. Unlike chronological time, which is based on a universal,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1978: Social Research in the Public Sector

Author: Gabriele Morello

December 1, 1978

The use of research in socio-political decisions

The authors put forward a personal view of the development of social research in Italy since the end of World War II. They describe some of the difficulties inherent in commissioning and interpreting this type of research. Examples are given about...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1977: Research For Decision Making

Authors: Vincenzo Cesareo, Patrick G. M. Standen

June 15, 1977

Magazine contents and the needs of different sociological segments of readers

The object of the study was to identify the market opportunity for two Mondadori weeklies on the basis of characteristics of the readership and its expectations from the magazines. The research area was made up by the readership of the two magazines...

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

Authors: Vittorio Liberanome, Gilberto Valentini

June 15, 1976