Demographics

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Sponsored White Paper: 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.
Sponsored White Paper: The Devil Is in the Data: This research-on-research report explains how DMS Research profiled and examined panelists and survey respondents in detail based on their survey-taking behavior to help determine how questionnaires can be designed to gather the most accurate information from different types of respondents.
Comcast’s Versus channel turned to research to better understand a core audience segment: Following a rebranding of its Outdoor Life Network as Versus, which broadened its scope to include other sports, Comcast Networks conducted in-depth research to show advertisers that the channel’s core audience of outdoorsmen was as strong as ever and receptive to ad messages outside of the hunting and fishing categories.
Considerations when employing a market research online community: The author outlines some of the specific trade-offs (big vs. small, general vs. specific, pure vs. passionate) that researchers make in choosing to use market research online communities.
How online communities can tap a company's greatest unused resource: the consumer: Online communities offer an opportunity to listen to customers and place them at the heart of a company's marketing strategy. By giving the respondent a seat at the decision-making table, companies can build strong and long lasting relationships that may not have been possible through offline media.

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Study tracks trends in refusal rates: This article discusses the “Your Opinion Counts” National Steering Committee’s 1988 study of survey respondents’ refusal to be interviewed, providing a comparison to the benchmark study conducted in 1985.
Religiously speaking: To find Jewish respondents to participate in its National Jewish Population Study study, the Council of Jewish Federations and the City University of New York used used EXCEL, a telephone omnibus study conducted by AUS Consultants-ICR Survey Research Group. After suitable respondents for the Jewish population study were identified through the omnibus study, they were re-contacted to determine their interest in participating in 30 minute telephone interviews.
How qualitative researchers see the consumer of the 90s: Over 40 qualitative researchers shared their insights about the current state of the consumer. The Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA) conducted its first Trends Identification Project with the goal of asking its members if the 1990s consumer is different from the 1980s consumer. Members responded to a questionnaire with open-ended questions and two closed-end questions. Five members of the QRCA board also participated in a telephone focus group for the study.
Mail survey tests awareness of chiropractic technique: Activator Methods, Inc. surveyed a random sample of 1036 chiropractors nationwide via mail to determine its position in the chiropractic marketplace.
Trade Talk: It’s all about me: A report on a study of single-person households and their buying habits.