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Total No. of Questions : 17
Total No. of Pages : 02
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MBA (2018 Batch) (Sem.-3)
MARKETING RESEARCH
Subject Code: MBA-302-18
M.Code : 76890
Time: 3 Hrs.
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Max. Marks : 60
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES :
- SECTION-A contains EIGHT questions carrying TWO marks each and students has to attempt ALL questions.
- SECTION-B consists of FOUR Subsections: Units-I, II, III & IV. Each Subsection contains TWO questions each carrying EIGHT marks each and student has to attempt any ONE question from each Subsection.
- SECTION-C is COMPULSORY and consists of ONE Case Study carrying TWELVE marks.
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SECTION-A
- Define marketing research
- Structured questionnaire
- What is test marketing?
- Expert validity
- Content analysis
- Discuss in brief the problems faced by the researcher in gathering primary data in the field.
- What is research design?
- Randomized design
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SECTION-B
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UNIT-I
- What do you understand by market research? Discuss the important steps and general methodology for data collection.
- Explain various types of sources for secondary data and their relevance for marketing research.
UNIT-II
- Elaborate the concept of causal research designs.
- What are basic methods of qualitative research? Discuss steps for developing research proposal.
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UNIT-III
- Explain the need of reliability and validity testing for a scale.
- Write notes on Likert scale, semantic differential scale and measurement errors in marketing.
UNIT-IV
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- Discuss significance of data analysis. Does analysing data leads to some meaningful conclusions.
- Discuss in detail the multivariate analysis.
SECTION-C
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Case Study :
You are a manager in research agency who have been given a task to study the effect of television advertisement of Baby Food on buying propensity of viewers, a target population will be parents and would-be parents of children aged 5 years or below in Punjab. However, you know it is practically difficult to gather data of all the television viewers who are either parents or would-be parents residing in Punjab.
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Questions:
- Suggest the possible probability and non probability methods by you as a researcher could use to select a sample out of the entire population, based on Punjabi population. Further, it is important to note that, sample and target population should be similar to each other. (6)
- What would you believe be the correct sample size and reasons thereof. (3)
- What kind of questionnaire you would use. (3)
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NOTE : Disclosure of Identity by writing Mobile No. or Making of passing request on any page of Answer Sheet will lead to UMC against the Student.
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