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The Market and Marketing Research

Dr. Sherine Zaklama

June 2015

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Introduction to �Market Information �& �Research

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Introduction

Instructor introduction

Participants introduction

  • What is your knowledge about market research?
  • What do you expect out of this course?
  • What do you want to learn?

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Why are we starting by the horse and frog in a research course?

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The outline of the course

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�The Outline�

  • The difference between market and marketing research
  • The Secondary Research
  • The primary Research
    • The qualitative Research
    • The quantitative Research
  • The importance of data base
  • Report writing and presentation

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Brain storming�and�benchmark for the course

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Case Study

  • You are all a group of business men, specialized in the manufacturing of children’s toys.
  • You have decided that you will pursue the opportunity of opening a manufacture for the toys in Zimbabwe.
  • You need to identify all the market and marketing information that you need, before taking the decision to go ahead/not go ahead.
  • Write down all the information you need

(not less than 20 requirements).

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The Marketing Information and Research �

You will have a chance to learn everything about market and marketing research; above all, and most importantly, you will learn how to use research as a tool to serve your marketing and communication campaigns and strategies.

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The Need for information in Marketing Management �

Information is a marketing asset. It helps in:

  • Increasing responsiveness to customer demands
  • Identifying new opportunities and new product/service demands and gaps
  • Anticipating competitive attacks and threats.
  • Helps in making decisions.

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Organizations now compete by knowing more about the markets they serve:

  • Who are the best suppliers?
  • How to reach to the consumers?
  • What do consumers need????

In other words, gathering information and using it intelligently.

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The Organizations’ needs�

  • Markets
  • Shares
  • Products
  • Price
  • Distribution
  • Sales
  • Advertising
  • Environment

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The customers’ needs

  • Who are my customers
  • Where are they found
  • How do we build relationship with customers
  • How do customers make purchases
  • How do we satisfy their needs
  • What is their behavior patters

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The Marketing Information

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The Marketing Research

The marketing research definition

The collection, analysis and communication of information undertaken to assist decision making in marketing.

The customer data base definition

A manual or computerised source of data relevant to marketing decision making about an organization’s customers.

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�The Importance of Marketing information �

We need to know information about:

  1. The customers
  2. Competitors
  3. The environment

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Commissioning the research�Important slide

Internal Specialized

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Internal

Advantages

  • In house staff understand the nature of the problem and the target audience
  • Limited budget
  • Confidentiality is critical

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Internal

Disadvantages:

  • Lack of objectivity
  • Bias results
  • Unprofessional researchers
  • Lack of sophisticated software analysis
  • Inappropriate/incorrect methodologies

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External

Advantages

  • Trained staff
  • Objectivity
  • Broader geographical coverage
  • Specialized programs and staff

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External

Disadvantages

  • Lack of knowledge of the industry and products
  • High budgets
  • Choosing the appropriate agency is sometimes difficult (members of international bodies like ESOMAR, MRS..etc.

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The market research process

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The market research process

  1. Definition of problem
  2. Research Objectives and not marketing objectives
  3. Design
  4. Collect the data
  5. Analyze the data
  6. Report the data

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The Definition

Identifying the opportunities : change in the law, new technology, new trends and behavior

Also identifying the threats: new competitors, adverse behavior

In both cases, the organization needs to know more…

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The research objectives

  • Clear
  • Precise
  • New and not repetitive
  • Focused
  • Research objectives should be SMART

Specific, measurable, actionable, reasonable and time scaled

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Design the research methodology/ies

  • Which methodologies and why?
  • What is the sampling and why?
  • What is the geographical coverage?
  • Age, gender, profile, social and income levels…etc.?
  • Criteria of social classes

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Collect the data

The actual field work

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The analysis of the data

Softwares used (SPSS, quantum and quanvert)

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Reporting of the data

Report and presentation of results

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Quizzzzz

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  • Real estate brokerage market is growing in Egypt, and is expected to boom in the coming period, especially after the economic reforms that are currently taking place in Egypt. This market is dominated by a large number of small brokers (small companies and individual brokers such as porters and drivers). However, few years ago, multi-national brokerage firms have penetrated this market. These multinationals have introduced a new concept for brokerage in Egypt opening the door for professional real estate business in the territories.
  • ERA is one of the biggest real estate agencies in the United States. It is expanding its business through penetrating the Egyptian market and the Middle-East.

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Purpose

  • To understand the different market dynamics controlling the brokerage market in Egypt.

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Write

  • At least 5 research objectives to answer the purpose of the study

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Research objectives

  • Understanding the current market situation.
  • Understand customer’s habits and attitudes in the buying and selling activities
  • Main factors considered when buying/selling real estate.
  • Previous experience and impressions concerning real estate brokerage offices.
  • Level of awareness to brokerage firms.
  • Customer’s perceptions and experiences with the different brokers, including multi-nationals.

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MARKET �&�MARKETING RESEARCH

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MASS MEDIA RESEARCH

  • What is market research
  • What is marketing research
  • What is the difference between them

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MARKET RESEARCH

  • Market research, in a nut shell, means understanding everything about the market AND not the consumer.
  • It relies on secondary data and deals only in numbers.
  • It is the first source of market information.
  • Ready available for the public and for free
  • Information obtained from secondary data can not be obtained individually.
  • It is general information and non confidential

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EXAMPLES

Examples of market research information:

  • The national census that is done every 10 years.
  • The numbers of factories, companies, households, education of the population...etc
  • The number of mobiles, computers, etc.

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SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA

  • Chambers of commerce
  • Ministries
  • Customs
  • The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)
  • NGO’s
  • Internet

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Internal Sources

  • Past Marketing Research Studies : These studies help avoid future mistakes in Primary research , leading to more accuracy and efficacy in carrying out the research.
  • Sales figures : These show to a great extent the trend of sales.
  • Customer Complaints records

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ADVANTAGES

  • Extremely important before:
    • Entering into new markets
    • Expanding lines of products (an existing industry but you want to launch a new line).
    • Establishing new businesses
    • Taking marketing decisions…etc.
  • It identifies the main players/monopoly of the market.
  • It identifies the gaps, opportunities, potential in the market.
  • It helps in understanding the nature of the market (political, economical, financial, social, income…etc).
  • Its for free
  • Ready made (You buy it as is)

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DISADVANTAGES

  • Quality & accuracy of data obtained.
  • Time relevance (census), (Strategic decisions taken: Internet decision)
  • Economical, political or social changes incurred
  • The problem of definitions; which is the most serious of them all (Ex. Ministry of tourism, toys, age of children)
  • Can not stand alone for market decisions. It must be followed by marketing research.

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PENETRATION

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WHAT IS PENETRATION?

  • Penetration means the percentage of a specific segment within the universe.

  • There are only two variables in the penetration:

The universe and the segment

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WHAT IS PENETRATION

  • Example: What is the penetration of:
    • Mobiles in Egypt
    • Platinum card of Barclays bank
    • Television ownership
    • Automatic washing machines

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Primary Research �QUALITATIVE

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Types od Primary research

  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH)

  • QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH (SURVEYS)

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN�QUALI & QUANTI

Qualitative

  • Explore & discover
  • Unstructured discussion guide
  • Small number
  • Provides insights & understanding
  • Sample not representative
  • Results not definite

Quantitative

  • Determine & prove
  • Structured questionnaire
  • Large number
  • Provides statistical data
  • Sample representative
  • Results are definite

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Qualitative

  • Role of researcher: not separated from data

  • Design:

evolves & adjusted during research

Quantitative

  • Role of researcher:

Separate from data

  • Design:

determined before research begins

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Qualitative

  • Theory:

develop theories

Quantitative

  • Theory:

test/support or reject theory

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The Definition

  • Research undertaken using an unstructured research approach with a small number of carefully selected individuals to produce non quantifiable insights into behavior, motivations and attitudes.

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WHEN USE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH (INTERPRETIVE)

  • Understand people’s attitudes, motives & behavior in their daily lives.
  • Pre-survey and to develop hypotheses.
  • Evaluate advertising or public relations campaigns.
  • Test messages.
  • Identify strengths & weaknesses.

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METHODS OF �QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

  • Field observation
  • In-depth interviews
  • Diads
  • Triads
  • Focus groups
  • In homes
  • Ethnography

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Field observation

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FIELD OBSERVATION

  • It is a form of data gathering where information on the behavior of people is collected without any questions being asked.
  • Observation can only measure behavior, and cannot investigate the reason for the behavior.
  • The researcher becomes the witness of behavior

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FIELD OBSERVATION

Advantages:

  • Excellent in piloting studies: provides useful information.
  • First hand data.
  • Relevantly accurate, as it is recorded on the actual behavior of the respondents.
  • It overcomes the refusal factor in research.

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FIELD OBSERVATION

Advantages:

  • It not a bias recording.
  • Natural settings.
  • Inexpensive.

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FIELD OBSERVATION

Disadvantages:

  • Not representative
  • Results influenced because respondents are not very natural in behavior when they know they are being observed.

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FIELD OBSERVATION

Ethical issues in field observation:

  • The right to privacy
  • Can be hidden in if recorded in public places, but must be announced if take place in private places.

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IN DEPTH INTERVIEWS

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IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS

Why would a researcher use in-depth interviews?

    • Sensitive subjects
    • Professionals and high caliber respondents
    • Depth of information

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INTENSIVE (IN-DEPTH) INTERVIEWS

Advantages:

  • Rich data
  • Non influenced responses
  • Easy to approach/conduct
  • Not expensive

Disadvantages:

  • Sample not random
  • Difficult to analyze
  • Boring
  • Hard to control interview
  • Answers and interpretations could be different

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Types of Qualitative Research

Diads

Triads

Focus Groups

In homes

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Diads

Eligibility

When use

Why use

Ping Pong

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Focus Groups

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FOCUS GROUPS

  • To understand attitudes and behaviour of consumers.
  • The average number is 8-10 respondents per group.
  • Groups are conducted in one way see through mirror. (Mo’men example)
  • Sometimes there is need for mini groups (3-5) respondents.

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A focus group is a combination of:

    • Respondents
    • Listeners
    • Moderator
    • Discussion guide

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RESPONDENTS:

  • Must fit eligibility/criteria
  • Avoid experts in groups
  • Outspoken
  • Avoid friends and relatives
  • Must be homogeneous in age and sec
  • Gender mixture not recommended

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LISTENERS:

  • Must respect respondent’s opinion
  • Not take negative answers personally
  • Avoid bias reporting

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MODERATOR:

  • Pleasant/avoid superiority elements
  • Attentive/listens and remembers
  • Flexible and creative
  • Listen a lot – talk a little
  • Know and understand the objectives
  • Talk same language of consumers
  • Strong character

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PROBLEMS IN FOCUS GROUPS:

  • Leadership in a group
  • Shy/non confident respondent
  • True lack of knowledge
  • Dull sessions
  • Answers that put other respondents down and make them not say the truth

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES

Projective techniques are used to:

  • Help respondents in expressing themselves when words might be hard to use.
  • Enhances the quality
  • Obtain the top of mind reaction to a product/brand/service
  • Obtain the brand image

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES

Types of Projective techniques:

  • Top of mind spontaneous reaction
  • Word association
  • Third party talk or role playing
  • Collage
  • Brand personification
  • Boat
  • Brand mapping
  • Sentence completion

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DISCUSSION GUIDE

  • Before you start you must know your research objectives.
  • You must differentiate between the need to know and nice to know
  • Flexible
  • Not too long
  • Moves from macro to micro

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DISCUSSION GUIDE

  • Starts with an introduction to break the ice with respondents
  • Must be divided into areas.
  • All points must be covered in each area before moving to the other
  • Always keep the least important issues to the end

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Each Area of the discussion

  • In each area, you must give very clear instructions to the moderator on the objectives of the area and how to go about it.
  • If you recommend any projective techniques, you must identify which ones in details.
  • All the moderator’s instructions are put in italic font, and clearly stated.

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In class case study

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Kidzania

  • Kidzania is an edutainment outlet for children aged from 2-12.
  • The first launch of Kidzania was in Dubai in 1990, followed by other countries.
  • It opened in Egypt around 2010
  • It offers all the educational platforms for the kids in the most entertaining way.
  • The target audience of Kidzania is children, aged from 5-12, A, B and C social classes…

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Kidzania

Since its launch in Egypt, Kidzania has been suffering low visiting figures.

It has also been suffering from fierce competition from other similar but not identical organizations like day care services, kinder gardens and cultural centers. These organizations are in direct and continuous contact with the target audience, whether users or non users of the service.

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Kidzania

In an attempt to overcome the low visiting rates, Kitzania would like to start a direct marketing communication campaign, using mobile phones and smart phones to reach to its customers.

Before it starts the campaign, Kidzania would like to test the acceptance of the target audience to the direct marketing activities. (rational for the research )

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You are asked to

  1. Identify the research objectives.
  2. Identify the qualitative research methodologies
  3. Specify the sample structure
  4. Draft the areas of the discussion guide

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REPORT

  • Qualitative research report is rather complicated whereas quantitative report is straight forward.
  • Never never never analyze data by tables or numbers.
  • Only pies could be used.
  • Data comes in sentences, descriptions or paragraphs.

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH REPORT

  • Qualitative researcher may give the reader subjective feelings.
  • Usually it is more lengthy than quantitative report.
  • Qualitative report is more lively, free form and literary styles.
  • Written in narrative style.

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In class case study

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You are asked to collect qualitative information about the marketing for a new line of cruelty free cosmetics (lipsticks, eye shadow, and so on). The information you will collect will help you in drawing up and implementing a marketing plan.

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You need the following

  1. The size of the market, number of items sold, number of customers.
  2. The leading companies and their respective market share
  3. The break down of market by type of cosmetic (lipstick, eye shadow..etc).
  4. Current customer trends in buying cosmetics (price, colours, brands..etc)
  5. Consumer preference in terms of packaging and presentation.
  6. The influence on consumers of advertising and promotion that emphasises the cruelty free nature of products.

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�������You are asked to draw the research map that answers the preceded information

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The requirements�

  • Research objectives (Must be SMART)
  • Research methhodology/ies
  • Sample size and structure
  • Discussion guide outline for the groups.
  • Questionnaire outline for the survey.

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�������QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH��

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Definition

Undertaken using a structured research approach with a sample of the population to produce quantifiable insights of behavior, motivation and attitude.

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Definition

The data gathering is more structured and less flexible than qualitative research.

The results are statistical and quantifiable.

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THE TWO MAIN APPROACHES

  1. Interviewer administered
  2. Face to face whether at home or street: (Paper & Pen) or Computer assisted Personal Interviews (CAPI)
  3. Telephone: (Paper & Pen) or Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI)
  4. Self administered
  5. Postal (Expired)
  6. On-line (E-mail and web surveys)

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Face to Face

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FACE TO FACE

Some researchers call it one-on-one interviews.

The questionnaire could be fully structured or semi structured.

The survey is conducted with the assistance of an interviewer

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Face to face

It can take many forms:

  1. In-home/door step
  2. Executive interviewing
  3. Street interviewing
  4. Mall intersepts

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THE INTERVIEWER

According to the nature of the methodology and the nature of the research, the profile of the interviewer is identified. For business interviews higher caliber of respondents is used versus regular interviewer for the general public.

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STEPS FOR CONDUTING PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

  1. Select the sample: There must be a screening questionnaire to select the eligible respondents. In the door to door interviews, you must select the area, then the block and finally a random house hold from which the person will be chosen.
  2. Construct the questionnaire: It is flexible in using visuals, concepts or any printed material. You can use scales and rating questions easily.
  3. Prepare the interviewing instructions guide. How to dress, any permits they need, how to record the data, the quota they need to complete.

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STEPS FOR CONDUTING PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

  1. Train the interviewers: Training is very important to detect any error in the questionnaire, determine the time of the questionnaire completion, how to ask the questions, any complexity in understanding the questions…etc.
  2. Collect the data: personal interviews are both labor and cost intensive. Data is collected either by writing on paper and pen or using the computer (in sophisticated markets).

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STEPS FOR CONDUTING PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

  1. Verify the results: because it entails a lot of effort, verification of the questionnaires must be done. It is either done by a field supervisor or by one of the executives or senior management. Verification is done from 15-20% of the total sample and is selected randomly. Key questions are checked in the verification. The checker must not give the impression that he does not trust his interviewers and that is why he is checking over them. It gives a very bad impression of the company.
  2. Finally, tabulate and analyze the data.

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Advantages of face to face

  1. Motivation
  2. Flexibility
  3. Obtaining depth of information
  4. There is feed back from the interviewer that could be used in the analysis
  5. The identity of the respondent is known.

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Advantages Cont.

  1. The termination rate in personal interviews is less than any other methodology.
  2. Assists the respondents with complex questions

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Disadvantages of face to face

  1. Time consuming
  2. Cost is higher
  3. Interviewer bias
  4. The physical appearance of the interviewer along with the dress code, behavior, age, gender…etc

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Disadvantages Cont.

  1. Most of the interviews must be conducted during the day, as interviewers are unlikely to work at night, which eliminated the possibility of finding certain segments of the respondents (working males..etc)
  2. More difficult to control

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���������THE TELEPHONE SURVEYS

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THE TELEPHONE SURVEYS

Telephone surveys and personal interviews use trained interviewers who ask questions orally and record the responses, usually either on a paper questionnaire or on a computer.

The respondents do not see the actual questionnaire.

They fall in between mail surveys and personal face to face ones.

They offer more control and higher response rates than most mail surveys but they are limited in the types of questions that could be asked.

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THE TELEPHONE SURVEYS

Telephone surveys are more expensive than mail surveys and less expensive than the one on one interviews.

Interviewers are an extremely important element in the telephone interviews. The manner of speaking should not influence the respondents’ answers in any way.

They must get adequate training and instructions to minimize any bias answers possible.

They must be very well trained about the skipping patters, they must be fast and familiar with the questionnaire.

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THE TELEPHONE SURVEYS

The questions must be read word by word and in the exact order of the questionnaire.

Never suggest an answer, try to explain the question but do not volunteer answers.

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THE STEPS

  1. Select a sample. The person to be interviewed, telephone number, geographical area...etc.
  2. Construct the questionnaire. It must be concise, specific and clear. Try to use the least rating and ranking questions. Remember that you are asking someone who cannot see the questions; so put yourself in his shoe when you are constructing the questionnaire.

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THE STEPS CONT

  1. Train the interviewer on all the questions; you must pilot the questionnaire with at least 3- 4 questionnaires per interviewer.
  2. Collect the data
  3. Make necessary call backs
  4. Verify the results.
  5. Tabulation and analysis.

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Advantages

  1. The cost is reasonable.
  2. It can include more details than the mail surveys.
  3. Interviewers can explain questions.
  4. The response rate is higher than mail ones.
  5. They are faster.
  6. Can reach high caliber respondents
  7. Can be conducted in all geographical areas.

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Disadvantages

  1. The mix between sales call and researchers make people hang up without even knowing why you are phoning them
  2. Impossible to include questions with any visuals.
  3. In some countries telephone listing is not updated and not accurate.
  4. The low penetration of telephone lines
  5. Results could be bias to people that own telephone lines.

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Disadvantages Cont.

  1. Telephone surveys require a large number of dialing to successfully interview the number of respondents required for a study.

  • The following table will show you the difficulties that an interviewer can face to complete a quota for telephone interviews.

This is what is needed:

Males, age between 18-54, own computers at home.

This sounds easy, lets see how easy it is

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EXAMPLE

Call Result Number % of total

No answer 443,200 56.3

Initial refusal 99,350 12.6

Busy 74,600 9.5

Call back 30,550 3.9

Disconnect 28,400 3.6

Wrong age 26,000 3.3

Business 9,400 1.2

Computer 6,750 0.9

Over quota 5,250 0.7

Language barrier 3,750 0.5

Security 3,000 0.4

Complete 20,000 2.5

Total Calls 787,600

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On Line

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�The two main approaches �

  • Email

  • On line surveys

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�Email�

  • Either as a text within the email

  • Sent as an attachment.

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�Text Message�

  • Appears in the text with tick boxes and spaces for responses.
  • After completion, send the q’aire back by using the reply facility.
  • It is a traditional self completion one.
  • The usage of professional soft wares is very important.

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�Attachment�

  • A simple word document that is opened by the respondent, enters responses and returns
  • You must ensure the document is compatible with various version of software.

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�On-lines

  • The standard questionnaire format

  • The interactive questionnaire

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The Standard format

  • The questionnaire appears on the page as it would on paper.
  • The respondent scrolls down the page, completing each question.
  • It is now super ceded by the interactive questionnaire

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�The Interactive questionnaire

  • The questions appear on the screen, one at a time.
  • The respondent submits their answers and then the computer shows a new question dependent on the answer of the previous question.

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�The interactive questionnaire

  • The respondent is not influenced by the their seeing the full set of questions
  • It can be annoying for users with slow modems
  • Respondents have to complete all questions correctly before seeing the next questions .

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Importance of on line

  • The increase of internet and broad band users
  • Pop ups is an option for targeted and potential users
  • To avoid bias answering, you can invite potential respondents through a web link on social media

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Advantages

  • Reduced costs
  • Fast delivery
  • Easily personalized
  • Penetrating targeted groups
  • Can include images and photos

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�Tips to increase response

  • Offer any kind of incentives
  • Strong introduction
  • Importance of the opinion of respondent
  • Short questions, clear and easy to answer
  • Short questionnaires
  • Pilot ….pilot ….pilot

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�������Mini-work shop�What is wrong with the following questionnaire??????�

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IMPORTANT NOTE

Before constructing the q’aire, you must:

  • Write down all your objectives very clearly.
  • Identify if it is self completion or interviewer assisted.
  • Which research methodology will you use.

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IMPORTANT NOTE

  • What is your timeline, geographical location, profile of interviewee, penetration of your product/service.

  • Obtain the necessary permits.

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ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF

  • Why am I asking this question?
  • What is it indented to find out?
  • What exactly do I want to know.
  • Will this question give me the information that I need?

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QUESTIONNAIRE CONSTRUCTION

Some common problems

  • Putting the chart before the horse: Designing the q’aire before defining the parameters and objectives.
  • Poor sequence of questions
  • Proceeding from specific to general issues

(Micro to Macro)

  • Asking demographics before start of q’aire

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QUESTIONNAIRE CONSTRUCTION

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DECISION

  • Is this questionnaire a self administered or interviewer assisted one?
  • Before you even think of the questionnaire, this question MUST be answered.
  • The whole construction of the questionnaire depends on this answer

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A QUESTIONNAIRE MUST

Communicate to respondent what the researcher is asking for

Communicate to researcher what the respondent has to say

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1st time experience

  • You might think it is simple; sorry its not.
  • In a normal conversation you express yourself, correct yourself, use body language to communicate….
  • In a q’aire you lack all that. Communication must be clear and simple.

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Answer

Do you encounter any difficulties in paying your rent?

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Develop the question topic (Areas)

Select the questions and response format

Select the wordings

Determine the sequence

Design the layout and appearance

Pilot

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����������Development of question topics

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  1. Research objectives

  • Are the key drivers of q’aire design
  • Which objective are critical and which are secondary
  • What is the level of details do you want
  • What information do you need about the respondents
  • Remember the line between the nice and need to know

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2. Qualitative research findings

  • Use the qualitative research findings in your q’aire
  • Use the wordings and attributes
  • Use the open ended and rich information of qualitative

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3. Characteristics of respondents

  • Put yourself in the position of the respondent.
  • The level of interest in the q’aire has an impact on the answers and refusal rate.
  • Put the environment of the interview in your mind.

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���������2. Selection of questions and response format

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The choice of questions

There are three choices:

  1. The open ended questions
  2. The closed ended questions
  3. The scale questions

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The open ended

  • Sometimes is known as the unstructured questions.
  • There are no pre-set answers. The respondents puts the answers of his choice.
  • They are used when there is a variety of answers and the researcher might not have all the answers.
  • Respondents use their own phrases and terminologies

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The open ended

  • They are also used to explain answers to other types of questions appearing the q’aire. Ex: why are you dissatisfied with the service…
  • Open ended questions must be coded, which is one of its main drawbacks.
  • Editing of open ended also is another draw back. (this is time consuming)
  • They are more difficult in self administered q’aire than those filled in with the help of interviewers.

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The open ended

  • To overcome coding problems, you can put “pre-coded answers” and put the word “others, specify”. If others is inserted, it is regarded as an open ended.
  • It is also regarded as open because you might no read the answers, but rather tick on the answer. Again the type of methodology has a say in this point.

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Examples of open ended

  1. Which country do you come from?
  2. What did you enjoy about the flight?
  3. Why do you choose to fly British Airways?

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Pre- coded example

Why do you choose to fly British Airways?

Executive club member 1

Times of flight 2

Service 3

Price 4

Connections 5

No choice 6

Others please specify

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Closed questions

There are two types of closed ended:

  1. The dichotomous (Only two choices and are mainly used in screening questions).

They do not provide any details

Tells us almost nothing about consumers

You can add a don’t know but not recommended.

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Closed questions

  1. The multiple choice (more than two choices)

Mutually exclusive: no overlap between categories.

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Closed questions

Example: which of the following age bracket are you located in:

15-20

20-35

35-50

50+

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Collectively exhausted

  • All potential answers are listed.
  • Should be pre-ceded by qualitative research
  • Hard to predict all answers so an “others please specify” must be written.

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Some issues while constructing a questionnaire

  • Improper choice of questions.
  • Overuse of open ended questions
  • Biasing the respondent and using leading questions
  • Using very long questions that confuse respondents.

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cont.

  • Words and abbreviations.
  • Asking unrealistic questions
  • Throw away questions
  • Confusing skip patterns
  • Redundancy

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cont.

  • Impossible tasks
  • Boring questions
  • Not clear field instructions
  • Conducting field work before pre-testing the q’aire.
  • Very long q’aires lead to invalid answers

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DATA COLLECTION

  • Some common problems

in Data collection

  • Cheating
  • Lack of supervision
  • Poor rapport with respondents
  • Memory problems
  • Ignorance of subject matter
  • Culture dependent response tendencies

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DATA COLLECION

  • Some common problems

in Data collection

  • Refusal rates
  • Terminations
  • Not at home
  • Low penetration of product/service
  • Indifference in returning mail surveys

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Decide the question structure

  • Open ended: Completely open ended,

directed open ended and restricted open ended (not read)

  • Closed ended: Ranking, rating, multiple choice
  • Other variants: attribute importance, assessment, comparative evaluation,classification.

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CASE STUDY

The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood is undertaking a Public Relations Campaign to encourage people to organize family planning. Prior to the campaign, NCCM needs to understand more about family planning in order to set the right messages and the appropriate media channels to reach its target audience.

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OBJECTIVES

  • What are the best messages to be used in the family planning campaign?
  • What are the barriers against family planning?
  • Who are the people that the target audience trust when it comes to issues like family planning?
  • What are the media channels that the target audience refer to for knowledge.

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IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING

  • What is the research methodology/ies to be used in order to answer the objectives?
  • Why did you choose this methodology?
  • Who is/are the target audience the research should address?
  • Which social classes do you recommend in your research?
  • Which age brackets do you recommend in your research?
  • Which media channels should NCCM use in their campaign?

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