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The child audience for radio and television

Broadcasting lays an adult world open to any child who can turn a switch, displaying this world effortlessly, vividly and for the-most part uncritically. The more television takes over from radio as the main broadcasting medium, the greater the...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Frederic H. Littman

Company: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

June 15, 1961

Analysis of magazine accumulative audience (French)

The purpose of this paper is to present a computation method suggested to us by the analysis of the Politz findings. It seems that this method leads to an acceptable estimation of the accumulative audience reached by n issues of a magazine, knowing...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Jean Michel Agostini

June 15, 1961

Criteria for appreciating the value of interviews in the field of industrial research (English-French)

The following considerations aim at determining the criteria decisive for appreciating the value of each interview and as such for the whole study. With this in mind a study among 100 companies which may be considered as potential buyers of a special...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Karl-Heinz Strothmann

June 15, 1961

Marketing activities in Japan

The postwar development of the Japanese economy has been remarkable. Following the economic reconstruction which was largely effected within a decade, the national economic activities have moved far beyond the prewar level, and are maintaining a...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Hiromitsu Homma

June 15, 1961

Methodical approaches to a study of the labour market in an economy of full employment (German)

For the first time in the history of the world of industrial labour the situation in Germany is characterised by the fact that the jobs available exceed the labour supply. This state of affairs, called full employment by the economists, does not...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Viggo Graf Blücher

June 15, 1961

Word of mouth and media

This paper discusses a point of view often overlooked: The importance of being - as an advertiser - talked about. The most successful of advertising executives are sometimes Irked when research people come up with survey results Indicating what...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Congress 1961: Marketing And Sociological Research In The Future

Author: Berend H. Feddersen

June 15, 1961

The share of psychology in statistical market surveys

The aim of the paper is to encourage a psycho-sociological direction in the elaboration of a survey. The author wants also to encourage the use of motivation surveys.

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: Jules Klanfer

September 15, 1960

The application of survey methods to forecasting

With very few exceptions, empirical social research methods are being used primarily for purposes of predicting future events or behaviour. Sociological and economic analyses, even where on their face they appear to be nothing but fact finding or...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Authors: W. Horn, M. Barioux, Jacques de Felice, A. C. H. Kuypers, P. de Wolff, J. Saltmarsh

September 13, 1960

Comment on Mr. Norman Squirrel's paper read on Tuesday morning, September 13th

The purpose for which discriminant analysis was developed, and for which it tends to be used in practice, is to obtain a function discriminating between individuals belonging to two or more populations, which can then be used to allocate further...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Conference 1960

Author: ESOMAR B.V.

September 13, 1960