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An advantage of using a panel of consumers for marketing research is


A) the discussion leader can help change negative panel responses into positive ones.
B) the company can find out if consumers change their purchasing behavior over time.
C) panel members often help each other by bringing up ideas for discussion that others didn't initially think of but that were important to them.
D) there will usually be one panel member who dominates the discussion and helps keep the conversation focused.
E) panel members are highly defined demographically, so it is relatively simple to replace an individual member without losing continuity.

F) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

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Briefly explain what a marketing experiment is. Include the definitions of dependent and independent variables and give examples of each.

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An experiment involves obtaining data by...

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The National Health Interview Survey is conducted annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By examining information gathered from a national sample of 600 respondents throughout the United States, it was able to announce that 11.3 percent of all Americans adults under age 65 lacked health insurance. To make this statement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used


A) focus groups.
B) causal research.
C) internal secondary data.
D) statistical inference.
E) interpolation.

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Primary data are


A) facts and figures that are newly collected for a project at hand.
B) facts and figures that have already been recorded before the project at hand.
C) facts and figures obtained by watching people mechanically rather than in person.
D) facts and figures obtained by asking people questions through the use of information technology.
E) conclusions developed from information obtained from a representative sample of a population.

F) A) and E)
G) D) and E)

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Even though primary data can be especially valuable to an individual firm, secondary data are often used because


A) secondary data are much more up-to-date and tailored to a specific firm or industry.
B) secondary data, although far more expensive, are also much more reliable.
C) primary data are usually more costly and time-consuming to collect.
D) primary data can be accessed by virtually anyone so the information generated loses much of its value.
E) primary data are less fact and figure based; they are more subjective and therefore more vulnerable to misinterpretation.

F) A) and C)
G) All of the above

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"Why do you smoke cigarettes?" followed by a blank like for a response is an example of which type of question?


A) Likert scale
B) fixed-alternative
C) dichotomous
D) open-ended
E) semantic differential

F) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

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Specifying constraints, identifying data needed for marketing actions, and determining how to collect data would take place during which step of the five-step marketing research approach?


A) Collect relevant information.
B) Develop the research plan.
C) Develop findings.
D) Take marketing actions.
E) Define the problem.

F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

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