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Objectives
1. Learn about the most highly relevant resources available to you for BUS 442 (particularly those on your handout).
SFU Library Course Web Guides (2)
• 1. BUS 442: Primary Research web guide
• 2. BUS 442: Secondary Market Research web guide
Marketing Scales Handbook
• What? – A “bibliography” of research questions appearing in research articles
• Who? – Published by the American Marketing Association
• Why? – offers potential pitfalls + suggestions, survey questions
• Where? – Reference section of the library
Academic Articles
• Useful for seeing what is already known about your broad research topic, i.e., literature review
• Business Source Complete, PsycINFO• PsycINFO tips:– Age limit options and other limits– Subject heading searches/thesaurus
Print Measurement Bureau (PMB)
• Where: Access under “Journal articles and databases” + drill down to “category reports”.
• What: Data on Canadian consumers based on an annual survey with a sample size of about 25,000 people
• Provides data on Canadians’ leisure activities, product consumption (by type and by brand), media exposure, and more
• How: PDF-like format; numerous tables organized by topic
Review
• Media Activity Tables: Viewers of specific kinds of TV shows
1. Which occupational demographic watches a significantly greater amount of “fashion, beauty shows”?
2. What percentage of Canadians 65+ years of age watch family dramas?
3. What percentage of viewers of Children’s cartoons has a post-graduate education?
Ipsos Reid Databases (2)
• Ipsos is a research firm• Ipsos News Centre contains survey-based
reports written by global IPSOS staff• Ipsos Trend Report Canada contains public
opinion, statistics, and analysis.
Private Research Found Elsewhere
• Marketresearch.com• BBM: “supplies radio and television audience ratings
services to the Canadian advertising industry” • NADBank: “NADbank designs and conducts research
in Canadian urban markets…to assist in the buying and selling of daily newspaper advertising in Canada”.
• Nielsen: “Nielsen offers an integrated suite of market information gathered from a wide range of sources…”
Private Research Found Elsewhere
• Go to website• Look for excerpts in articles; search in BSC,
LexisNexis, etc.• Check the library catalogue
TableBase
• Contains tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics
• Data culled from 1,000+ resources• Typical information: market share, market
size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, healthcare
TableBase
• Search tips:– Keyword search only searches table title, text +
descriptor field, so keep it simple!– Advanced search designed for more functionality,
so keep it simple here, too.
Statistics Canada
• To find the demographics and characteristics for a population of a given area:– Census Canada website• Data to the Census Tract level
– PC Census (Standalone computer). Unique features:• Data right down to the Census Dissemination Area, or
to the Forward Sorting Area• MapPoint software to create your own area
Statistics Canada
Census Metropolitan Area|
Census Tract|
Census Dissemination Area
Directory of areas
Local Information
• Government can be a good source of local information:
• City of Vancouver (also see sites for other municipalities) • Tourism Vancouver, especially the Marketing Research page • Vancouver Economic Development Commission • Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association • Business Council of British Columbia • BC Chamber of Commerce • Economic Development Association of British Columbia • Metro Vancouver (GVRD) • BC Stats • SFU's Office of Institutional Research and Planning
Institutional Research and Planning at SFU
• They “define, collect, analyze, maintain and disseminate institutional knowledge”
• Provides information on SFU student population