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Identify various internal and proprietary sources of secondary data.

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Internal and proprietary data is ...

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Which type of data cannot be purchased (legally and ethically) from commercial sources?


A) demographic and census updates
B) market-share data
C) consumer attitudes and public opinions
D) proprietary research and development data

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The population of a city is 230,000 and its annual per person expenditure on athletic shoes is $45. If there are 64,688 square feet of retail space used to sell athletic shoes in this city, its index of retail saturation is ____.


A) 12.65
B) 79.01
C) 159.99
D) 1437.51

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A moving average sales forecast works best in a dynamic competitive environment.

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The index of retail saturation is the ratio of moving average projection to local market potential (demand).

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Asking a group of households to record their consumption of certain products over a two-year period is an example of ____.


A) model building
B) database marketing
C) data transformation
D) diary panel data

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All of the following are producers of external secondary data EXCEPT ____.


A) libraries
B) trade associations
C) government
D) media

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Market tracking is the observation and analysis of trends in industry volume and brand share over time.

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Which term is used by the marketing research industry to refer to diverse types of data offered by a single company?


A) primary data
B) single-source data
C) compound data
D) integrated data

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Data purchased from a company such as NPD Group, Inc. on the consumption of frozen pizza in the U.S. is most likely going to be used for ____.


A) model building
B) database marketing
C) data mining
D) fact-finding

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Obtaining secondary data is typically ____ and ____ expensive than obtaining primary data.


A) faster; more
B) slower; more
C) faster; less
D) slower; less

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When a marketing manager reads publications like The Wall Street Journal and Business Week to try to determine changes in consumer behavior, the manager is best described as engaging in ____.


A) environmental scanning
B) model building
C) database marketing
D) data mining

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The mathematical result of describing the relationship between retail demand and supply for a specific geographic area for a specific product is known as the index of ____________________.

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Data that were collected previously for a different research study are known as ____________________ data.

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Techniques that use secondary data to select the best location for a retail or wholesale operation are called ____________________ techniques.

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All of the following are common reasons why secondary data do not adequately satisfy research needs EXCEPT ____.


A) outdated information
B) too expensive
C) variation in definition of terms
D) different units of measurement

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A(n) ____ network is a form of artificial intelligence in which a computer is programmed to mimic the way that people process information.


A) cognitive
B) neural
C) schematic
D) intelligent

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Many companies use powerful computers to dig through volumes of data to discover patterns about their customers and products. This activity is called data ____.


A) mining
B) snooping
C) surveying
D) discovery

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Trade associations gather data to help the organizations in a specific industry.

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Customer discovery is a form of data mining that analyzes anonymous point-of-sale transactions databases to identify coinciding purchases or relationships between products purchased and other retail shopping information.

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