Stowell Datasets Digital Archive: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, 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利·斯托威尔公司（Leigh Stowell & Company, Inc.）捐赠给华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University, 简称WSU）的400余项主流媒体市场消费者调查数据集之一。该公司是一家专业市场调研机构，专注为报业、电视合作台及有线电视运营商提供与消费者购买模式、面向节目受众的商品与服务精准营销相关的市场细分研究服务。斯托威尔档案库中的数据通过随机数字拨号（random digit dialing）与计算机辅助电话访谈（computer-aided telephone interviews, 简称CATI）方式采集。自1989年起，多数调查围绕大众传媒客户的营销需求展开，涵盖美国与加拿大主要都会区消费者的人口统计学特征、心理特征、媒体接触信息及购买行为数据。各调查的样本量介于500至3000名受访者之间，单研究平均有效样本量为1000条观测值。数据以受访者个体层面提供，所有观测值均绑定邮政编码或其他地理标识。目前预计将有更多调查数据集入库，年均新增20余项媒体市场研究捐赠。华盛顿州立大学与利·斯托威尔公司的合作关系，由该校政府研究与服务部（Division of Governmental Studies and Services, 简称DGSS）主任尼古拉斯·洛弗里奇博士与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。政府研究与服务部与华盛顿州立大学图书馆数字服务团队合作，将捐赠的数据文件整理为该数字档案库，其具备强大的检索与下载功能。在教务长办公室、文学院及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, 简称DDI）标准进行进一步优化完善。需特别说明：研究标题标注的年份为原始调查报告的发布年份，并非访谈实际开展年份。请查阅元数据字段"Dates of Collection"以确认各具体调查的访谈时间，亦可参考数据文件内部的日期字段。