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Multi dimensional measurement of involvement with social problems

Students of public opinion are well aware that important differences exist in people's involvement with the major (social) issues of the day. The concept of involvement has no scientific status in the social sciences, and there has been no endeavour...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: Peter H. van Westendorp

June 15, 1980

Advertising, promotion and medical detailing

The basic concept of the method consists in merging together all of a company’s data available on a sample of panel doctors. The data covers, first the drug and qualities prescribed by the panel, next the dates of the marketing actions performed...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Author: Jean-Mathieu Paoli

June 15, 1980

An experiment in building a marketing information system

In this paper we describe how we tried to solve a marketing information system need. First, we explain why we were gradually convinced it was necessary. The second step in our thinking was to list all the data we had and wanted to integrate in it....

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Authors: Françoise Rostand, Marc Olive

June 15, 1980

Opinion polls in democratic societies

In 1945 on July 5th, the day of Britain's post-war general election the News Chronicle published a poll which said that the Conservatives would get 41 per cent of the vote and Labour would get 47 per cent. Now, everybody in Britain knew that Mr....

Catalogue: ESOMAR/WAPOR Seminar 1980: Opinion Polls

Author: David Butler

June 15, 1980

Determination of the effect of advertising by means of the scaling techniques in general and the semantic differential in particular

If one wishes to study the effect of advertising, a concise definition of the concept of ‘advertising’ is essential. In business-circles, the function of advertising is often defined: ‘advertising must sell’. Although it cannot be...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: R. G. Ogilvie, G. J. S. Wilde

June 15, 1980

Area tests and consumer surveys to measure advertising effectiveness

The problem considered here is the measurement of advertising effectiveness, especially when the results are to be used to help decide how much to spend and what media types to use. We have found two techniques useful: area tests; and consumer...

Catalogue: Market Researchers Look At Advertising: A Collection of ESOMAR papers 1949-1979

Authors: Susanna Segnit, Simon Broadbent

June 15, 1980

Development of a self-completion media questionnaire for magazines

The present report describes a new system of questioning for self-completion media questionnaires in which all instructions were expressed in terms of symbols. The questionnaire as it has been drawn up was considered easy to understand by the persons...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Media Measurement And Media Choice

Author: Dieter Müller-Veeh

June 15, 1980

The application of a long and medium term M.M.I.S.A.T Colgate-Palmolive

Only a flexible, sophisticated and scientifically based system can give a satisfactory answer all sides can agree to and use as rational guidelines for the future. Colgate- Palmolive utilizes a MMIS to analyse the effect of its marketing-mix and to...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Information Systems In Action

Author: Janine Rouas

Company: Colgate-Palmolive

June 15, 1980

Effects of television advertising on children

A sample of 900 children (and their mothers), aged 6 to 13 and representative the Federal Republic of Germany was interviewed on a wide- spread selection of leisure-time activities, media consumption data as well as their opinions and attitudes...

Catalogue: Seminar 1980: Children And Young People

Author: Henning Haase

June 15, 1980