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marketing research
seven steps
2. plan research design
3.
qualitative vs quantitative
quantitative: the answers are transformed into numbers
qualitative: can’t be easily transferred to numbers
survey design process
1) Plan what to measure
2) Draft the questionnaire
3) Pretest and correct problems
plan what to measure
ensure that information is relevant to research objectives
when in doubt, keep it short
draft the questionnaire
question content make questions clear and concise choose language to match respondents and research goals question format open ended vs closed questions response scales
typical survey layout
start: instructions
starting questions: broad general questions
next few questions: simple direct questions
major portion of questionnaire: focused questions may be increasingly complex
last few questions: personal questions that may seem sensitive, example: income
conjoint analysis
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