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Random digit dialling crosses the Atlantic

We have devised and developed a new method for creating random digit dialling samples for telephone surveys in our agency. The method itself, which we have named ‘Number Propagation’, is very simple. We take the phone numbers of respondents...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: Ruth Deacon, Martin van Staveren

September 1, 1992

Are you satisfied with your satisfaction questions?

In satisfaction surveys amongst initial buyers of small electrical appliances, it is essential, beyond the easy 'disaster check', to obtain: a comparison of each new product with the accumulated database of similar results from previous launches, an...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1992: The Race Against Expectations

Authors: Christian Bernard, Yves Marbeau

September 1, 1992

Market research for mergers and acquisitions

The number of M&A transactions involving German firms has risen sharply since the mid-1980s. An important influencing factor was the development of the internal market of the European Community. The demand for professional services in the area of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: Banking And Insurance- Pressure On Profits, Pressure On Research

Author: Hans-Jürgen Kräh

June 15, 1992

The dealer as a customer

Vehicle manufacturers, their dealers, who they should regard as their customers, and the individuals or organisations who buy vehicles (who should be regarded as the dealer's customers) have an inter-dependent relationship. The manufacturer needs...

Catalogue: ESOMAR International Automotive Marketing Conference 1992

Author: Ron Sewell

June 15, 1992

The challenges for agricultural market research in the united Germany

After the political and economic opening of Eastern Europe towards the West, many companies which wanted to become active in these new markets asked quite quickly for market data. If any qualitative or quantitative market data on farm structures,...

Catalogue: Seminar 1992: European Agriculture In Transition

Author: Karl-Georg Herbert

Company: Produkt + Markt GmbH & Co. KG

June 15, 1992

Extended weeks of measurement

Since the early 1980s, BBM has measured radio tuning using a three-week sweep, chosen from a pre-announced window of 5 or 6 weeks. This sweep technique is familiar to radio broadcasters, researchers and others. In the United States, since 1981...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Duncan A. McKle, Owen Charlebois

June 15, 1992

No unexplored territory left on the German map (German)

Only four months after the breach of the Berlin Wall, the Allensbach Institute had already set up its own interviewer network in the GDR, with approximately 600 interviewers recruited personally or by mail. Even before the first free elections in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Michael Hallemann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1991

No unexplored territory left on the German map

Only four months after the breach of the Berlin Wall, the Allensbach Institute had already set up its own interviewer network in the GDR, with approximately 600 interviewers recruited personally or by mail. Even before the first free elections in...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1991: Marketing In A New Europe

Authors: Michael Hallemann, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

Company: Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach GmbH

June 15, 1991

A practical guide to survey research in East Europe and The USSR

This paper presents a synthesis of the BBC World Service's experience over the past two or three years in conducting quantitative research in Eastern Europe. The focus is not on any one of the dozen or so surveys which we have done in the region, but...

Catalogue: Conference 1991: International Marketing Research

Author: David Ostry

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1991