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ASKING QUESTIONS THAT MEASURE KNOWLEDGE 189<br />

the types of questions asked in company-sponsored survey research.<br />

Answers to these questions are typically linked to behavior to determine<br />

how knowledge about a brand or product category is linked<br />

with usage frequency or price sensitivity. This is examined in detail<br />

in Consumer Panels (Sudman and Wansink, 2002).<br />

Community Informants<br />

In a study of integrated neighborhoods and their characteristics,<br />

it was important to obtain information about major neighborhood<br />

institutions, such as schools and churches, as well as information<br />

on community history. Figure 6.8 gives examples of the kinds of<br />

questions asked of community representatives, or community<br />

informants. In this study, four community representatives—a<br />

school leader, a church leader, a community organization leader,<br />

and a leading real estate broker—were asked the same set of questions.<br />

As might be expected, not all four informants gave identical<br />

answers, but the mean or modal response was used to characterize<br />

the neighborhood for further analysis. Most of the information<br />

obtained from community informants could not have been obtained<br />

in any other way. Published sources were not available or<br />

were out of date. Not all community informants were equally<br />

knowledgeable. As one might expect, the school leaders knew more<br />

about the schools, the church leaders more about churches, and so<br />

on. Nevertheless the consensus data were very useful.<br />

Figure 6.7. <strong>Questions</strong> About Products and Companies.<br />

1. What are the brand or trade names of some of the products the (Name)<br />

company makes?<br />

2. Will you tell me what company you think makes Frigidaire refrigerators?<br />

Source: Payne, 1951.

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