RESEARCH; Online Dancing It's 5.30pm and, after a long day, the kids are screaming for Monsters Inc and the cat is under your feet demanding food. On the stove, there's oil burning in the pan, and the rice has become a solid lump of goop. And now the telephone rings. It's someone doing a survey. You instantly become one of the thousands of Kiwis who now routinely tell researchers to go forth and procreate. Steven Shaw reports on new strategies to produce credible surveys.
Tolerance for phone and door-to-door research is not what it used to be. Many people consider it rude beyond belief. But research has a saviour. And that saviour is the online space. Forums, permission-based emails and online panels (a group of people that has been recruited and can be contacted

Publication: AdMedia

Identifying children with special health care needs in the National Health Interview Survey: a new resource for policy analysis.(child health)
The ability to address the special needs of children with chronic conditions has become an important focus for providers and policymakers in the arenas of health care and education. In the changing policy environment, with recent reforms to the welfare system, expansions in use of managed care, and

Publication: Health Services Research

Web enhances market research; Database and Research: But issues such as recruiting representative sample remain.(Brief Article)
Market researchers have at their disposal an increasing array of high-tech tools for reaching consumers. With new, largely Internet-based options, marketers are assembling far-flung focus groups and surveying hard-to-reach potential customers-without having to invest in dozens of computer

Publication: Advertising Age

Chris Buckland's Politically Incorrect Column: It's so short-sighted to govern Britain with hocus-focus groups.(Features)
IT is hardly surprising that unemployment keeps falling. The country is awash with focus groups doing the job of politicians, private consulting firms hijacking the work of civil servants, special advisers whose numbers are spinning out of control, task forces and quangos doing a tango with our

Publication: Sunday Mirror (London, England)

Analysis of Focus Media Holding Ltd.
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 May 2007-bellwetherreport.com: Analysis of Focus Media Holding Ltd(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18052007 Analysis of Focus Media Holding Ltd (NASDAQ:FMCN) Focus Media Holding Limited operates out-of-home advertising network using audiovisual television displays in China.

Publication: M2 Presswire

NFO Research, Inc. acquires Migliara/Kaplan Associates, a leading healthcare marketing information company.
GREENWICH, ConnBUSINESS WIRENov. 9, 1995-- NFO Research, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFOR) today announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding stock of Migliara-Kaplan & Associates, Inc. and substantially all the net assets of Chesapeake Surveys, Inc. (CSI)

Publication: Business Wire