Stowell Datasets Digital Archive: Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

This is one of over 400 major media market consumer surveys which have been gifted to Washington State University (WSU) by Leigh Stowell & Company, Inc. of Seattle, Washington, USA. This is a market research firm which specializes in providing newspapers, television affiliates and cable operators with market segmentation research pertinent to consumer purchasing patterns and the effective marketing of goods and services to program audiences. The data in the Stowell Archive were collected via random digit dialing and computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI). Most of the surveys focus on the marketing needs of mass media clients and contain demographics, psychographics, media exposure information, and purchasing behavior data about consumers in major metropolitan areas of the United States and Canada starting in 1989. The sample sizes of the surveys range from 500 to 3,000 respondents, averaging 1,000 observations per study. Data are available at the respondent level, and all observations are keyed to zip code or other geographic identifiers. Additional surveys are anticipated, with over twenty new media marke t studies being donated annually. The University's relationship with Leigh Stowell & Company, Inc. was cultivated by Dr. Nicholas Lovrich, Director of WSU's Division of Governmental Studies and Services (DGSS) and by Dr. John Pierce, former Dean of the WSU College of Liberal Arts over the course of a decade. DGSS collaborated with WSU Libraries Digital Services to process the gifted data files into this digital archive which features powerful search and download capabilities. Further refinement of the archive in accordance with the Data Documentation Initiative is progressing with support from the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts and the WSU Libraries. It is important to note that the year indicated by the study's title is the year that the original survey was published, and is not necessarily the year in which the interviews were conducted. Refer to the metadata field "Dates of Collection" to di scern the interview dates of each specific survey. Refer also to date fields within the data file itself.

本数据集为美国华盛顿州西雅图市莱·斯托威尔股份有限公司（Leigh Stowell & Company, Inc.）赠予华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University, WSU）的400余份主流媒体市场消费者调查数据集之一。该公司是一家专注于为报纸、电视台附属机构及有线电视运营商提供市场细分研究服务的专业市场调研机构，其研究内容涵盖消费者购买模式、面向节目受众的商品与服务高效营销等方向。斯托威尔档案库中的数据通过随机数字拨号与计算机辅助电话访谈（Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing, CATI）方式采集。大部分调查聚焦于大众媒体客户的营销需求，涵盖1989年起美国及加拿大主要都会地区消费者的人口统计学特征、心理特质、媒体接触信息与购买行为数据。各调查的样本量覆盖500至3000名受访者，每项研究平均包含1000条观测数据。数据以受访者个体层面提供，所有观测均关联邮政编码或其他地理标识。该机构预计将持续捐赠新增调查数据，每年约新增20项新媒体市场研究数据集。华盛顿州立大学与莱·斯托威尔股份有限公司的合作关系，由华盛顿州立大学政府研究与服务部（Division of Governmental Studies and Services, DGSS）主任尼古拉斯·洛弗里奇博士，以及华盛顿州立大学文学院前院长约翰·皮尔斯博士历经十余年促成。政府研究与服务部联合华盛顿州立大学图书馆数字服务团队，将捐赠的数据文件加工为该数字档案库，其内置强大的检索与下载功能。目前在教务长办公室、文学院与华盛顿州立大学图书馆的支持下，该档案库正按照数据文档倡议（Data Documentation Initiative, DDI）标准进行进一步优化完善。需要特别说明的是，研究标题标注的年份为原始调查的发布年份，并非访谈实际开展年份。如需获取各特定调查的访谈日期，请参阅元数据字段「收集日期（Dates of Collection）」，亦可查阅数据文件内部自带的日期字段。