Trade Law Daily is a service of Warren Communications News.

The Council for Research Excellence said it will study response...

The Council for Research Excellence said it will study response bias in address-based audience samples and use the information to try improving diary-based TV audience measurement practices. The study will look at three TV markets of varied size: Dallas-Fort Worth,…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.

Texas; Albuquerque-Santa Fe, N.M.; and Paducah, Ky./Cape Girardeau,Mo./Harrisburg, Ill. “Sampled homes in all markets will be mailed a short questionnaire seeking answers on media equipment ownership and general viewing patterns,” the council said. “We need to learn whether expanded media-related equipment ownership can be obtained from diary samples, whether return-path data can improve diary measurement and how much ‘TV program’ viewing is done now … in what are currently defined as ‘non-TV homes,'” said Ceril Chagrin, executive vice president of Univision Communications and chairman of the council’s Sample Quality Committee.