This text provides a hands-on approach, stressing the practical rather than the theoretical aspects of market research. It is organized to lead readers through a marketing research project, from the intial formation of the research questions to the final presentation of the project.

Marketing Research: A Problem-Solving Approach

Business & Money

Sudman, Seymour

Blair, Edward

Marketing & Sales

Mcgraw-Hill College

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Applied Sampling

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Academic Pr

Response Effects in Surveys: A Review and Synthesis

Reference

Bradburn, Norman

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Natl Opinion Research Center

This volume, edited by authorities on survey research, looks at the changing techniques used to determine and measure cognitive and communicative processes in survey response. A summary and evaluation of these ways of understanding respondents, this book presents developments that should be of use to researchers and students.

Answering Questions: Methodology for Determining Cognitive and Communicative Processes in Survey Research

Schwarz, Norbert

Religion & Spirituality

Jossey-Bass

Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Asking Questions has become a classic guide for designing questionnaires¾the most widely used method for collecting information about people?s attitudes and behavior. An essential tool for market researchers advertisers, pollsters, and social scientists, this thoroughly updated and definitive work combines time-proven techniques with the most current research, findings, and methods. The book presents a cognitive approach to questionnaire design and includes timely information on the Internet and electronic resources. Comprehensive and concise, Asking Questions can be used to design questionnaires for any subject area, whether administered by telephone, online, mail, in groups, or face-to-face. The book describes the design process from start to finish and is filled with illustrative examples from actual surveys.

Asking Questions: The Definitive Guide to Questionnaire Design -- For Market Research, Political Polls, and Social and Health Questionnaires

Wansink, Brian

Bradburn, Norman M.

The authors advance the state-of-the-art in questionnaire design?combining time-proven techniques with current findings and methods. Asking Questions takes the reader from start to finish in the questionnaire design process?detailing each step, and illustrating methods with examples from actual surveys. With helpful checklists and a glossary of terms, this is a comprehensive resource for anyone involved in survey research.

Asking Questions: A Practical Guide to Questionnaire Design (JOSSEY BASS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE SERIES)

Self-Help

Relationships

Consumer Panels

Consumer Panels is the definitive work on the topic. By integrating cutting-edge academic research with global best practices, Consumer Panels provides data-driven tips on reducing reactivity and burnout, improving recruitment and retention, and cutting costs while increasing data quality. In addition, the book provides research-based guidance on reducing biases in electronic panels and on anticipating future developments in panel research.  For expert market researchers, it provides new tips, ideas, and state-of-the-art innovations for leveraging both online and offline panels. For brand managers, it provides clear guidance on how to better understand consumers with less cost, time, and effort. For academics, it provides advice on how to develop and use convenience panels to answer difficult questions about purchase trends and consumption patterns.

Management & Leadership

Amer Marketing Assn

Consumer Panels is the definitive work on the topic. By integrating cutting-edge academic research with global best practices, Consumer Panels provides data-driven tips on reducing reactivity and burnout, improving recruitment and retention, and cutting costs while increasing data quality. In addition, the book provides research-based guidance on reducing biases in electronic panels and on anticipating future developments in panel research. For expert market researchers, it provides new tips, ideas, and state-of-the-art innovations for leveraging both online and offline panels. For brand managers, it provides clear guidance on how to better understand consumers with less cost, time, and effort. For academics, it provides advice on how to develop and use convenience panels to answer difficult questions about purchase trends and consumption patterns.

South-Western Educational Pub

Explains how polls are conducted, describes the causes of polling errors, and discusses how polls are used and interpreted.

Polls and Surveys: Understanding What they Tell Us

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Consumer Panels provides a comprehensive overview of the use and history of consumer panels for marketing research. This convenient guide offers a breakdown of the panel process, including gathering data, recruiting panel members, and the use of panel services. The topics discussed include: Recruiting and compensating panel households, including forms to be used, frequency of data collection, and a comparison of panels versus recall data Conditioning, or the effects of panel participation on household behavior and their effects on trends in general purpose panels The cost of operating a panel, where information is available, and the magnitude of these costs relative to one-time surveys. Dr. Seymour Sudman was Professor of Business Administration and of Sociology and Research Professor and Deputy Director at SRL. The author of 19 books and hundreds of articles and presentations, Dr. Sudman is remembered for several major works, including Response Effects in Surveys (1974), Applied Sampling (1976), Asking Questions (1982), Thinking About Answers: The Cognitive Processes to Survey Methodology (1996), and Marketing Research (1998). Dr. Robert Ferber was the author or co-author of 17 books, including Statistical Techniques in Market Research (1949), Research Methods in Economics and Business (1962), Estudios Fundamentales de Mercadotecnia (1970), Consumer Panels (with Seymour Sudman, 1979), Consumption and Income Distribution in Latin America: Selected Topics (1980), and Social Experimentation and Economic Policy (1982). Dr. Ferber was a Professor of Marketing, Research Professor of Economics and of Business Administration, and founding Director of the Survey Research Laboratory from 1964 to 1981.

Ferber, Robert

Marketing Classics Press

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