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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

European panel on car repair

The problem I am going to present you regards a study which has contributed to solve a major problem of the client, a car manufacturer, and which has engaged our institute in a new area of technical development, quite unusual as compared with the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Alberto Colussi

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

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

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

From little ACORNS...

The objective of this paper is to describe the use of a new UK system of area classification, to assist in resolving problems of sample representativeness, sub-sample matching and minority sampling. Other applications of the system, as a descriptive...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Simon J. Orton

May 1, 1981

The role of prior data in the sampling of minority populations or parameters

The paper begins, by discussing the problems that can arise in the design of samples for multi-purpose industrial and consumer surveys. A model of the data collection in such surveys is given in the format of a data hierarchy. This discussion is then...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: Sampling Problems And Data Collection

Author: Stephen Kelly

May 1, 1981