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Research isn't finding fans among U.S. farmers. This article looks at farmers' attitudes toward research and suggests action researchers can take to improve research's standing.

Leaving an HMO: What does the member remember?

KCA Research Inc. recently conducted a telephone survey for a group practice model HMO to determine why members who had voluntarily terminated had made that decision. The 300 members contacted provided interesting results, particularly in terms of the number of them who did not recall switching health plans in the previous year.

Sponsored Content: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates

You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.

McGraw-Hill shows it's the place to get market information

McGraw-Hill, publishers of Electrical Construction & Maintenance magazine and Electrical Wholesaling magazine know the value of market research. Using a variety of techniques, including mailed questionnaires and telephone surveys, the company gathers information for the editorial and advertising sections of the McGraw-Hill magazines.

Marketers track, understand teens with syndicated studies

Marketing to teenagers can be difficult, but Teenage Research Unlimited uses self-administered questionnaires with follow-up mailings to monitor the teen market. It may be a volatile market, but companies like MTV and Seventeen Magazine have found that up-to-date information on teens can be very helpful.

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Sponsored Content: 11 Easy Ways to Improve Your Survey Response Rates

You can learn a lot from your customers and employees - if you can get them to fill out your survey. Surveys are a powerful and cost-effective way to not only gather information, but also identify and diagnose problems as well as uncover any new and emerging opportunities. However, one of the biggest challenges that many companies face in conducting surveys is getting enough people to take their survey (i.e. getting a high enough response rate) to ensure that their survey results are accurate. While there is no single, silver bullet for improving response rates, there are some easy steps that companies can take that, when combined, will help them improve their survey response rates. This white paper from Allegiance discusses what those steps are.

Appreciating the value of traditional research in a digital world

This article details the benefits unique to face-to-face research, including group bonding and access to nonverbal cues and metadata.

Iowa city finds mail survey fits its needs

The author details how a mail survey was the best way for North Liberty, Iowa to measure citizen opinions on existing and potential city services.

An analysis of the past 20 years of client-side research buying

Two decades’ worth of data from the Quirk’s circulation database is examined to discover what shifts have taken place in the research industry - including the advent of online and the latest economic crisis - and to predict where it might be headed.

A report on the 2010 Globalpark Market Research Software Survey

This iteration of the annual survey of research software users added questions on social media usage and deployment of sample routers and found that CATI seems to be holding its own.

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