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Con Sci 340
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Undergraduate 3
10/27/2009

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What time period which the use of demophraic information in the business community grew rapidly?
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1960's
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What were the factors that contributed to increased use of demographic infomration in the business community?
Definition

1. Demographic trends shaped markets for goods, services, and labor

2. Domestic and international conditions

3. Technology made access to demographic informaiton available

 

 

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Primary focus of the earliest academic studies of consumer behavior?

 

Definition
researchers referred to field as buyer behavior, reflecting on emphasis on interaction between consumers and producers at time of purchase.
Term
  What are some examples of database marketing?
Definition
  walmart stores massive amounts of info on 100 million ppl who visit its stores each week
Term
Relationship marketing
Definition
, green marketing: proctor and gamble refillable containers social marketing: increased literacy, discourage neg. like drunk drivin
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  Growth in the number of households in the next 5 years will be greatest among households with a householder in which age group?

 

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55 and older
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  What legal document mandates that a population census be conducted in the U.S. every ten year?
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Constitution, title 13
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  Year the first Decennial Census was conducted in the U.S?
Definition
1790
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  Last year the Decennial Census was collected by census workers who went door-to-door?
Definition
1950
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-What did Title 13 of the United States Code establis?

 

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·         establishes laws for which the census is conducted so we conduct our citizens and also so we have accurate info

o   Data protection and privacy policy- private info is never published

o   –information collected is used to produce statistics

o   sworn for life to protect confidentiality

o   violating the law is a serious crime

 

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  Method used to collect Census 2000 (door-to-door survey, telephone survey, mail survey, internet survey)?
Definition

 

primarily mail surveys

 

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  Primary reason that the 2010 Decennial Census will return to a short-form questionnaire only

 

Definition

american community survey

 

Term
  High-context culture:
Definition

 

group members tend to be tightly knit, and they are likely to infer meanings that go beyond the spoken word

 

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Low context culture
Definition
More literal
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Federal agency that issues guidelines for statistical reporting of race and ethnicity?

Definition

federal office of management and budget

 

Term

ow information on race and ethnicity is collected in the Decennial Census

 

Definition
Questions Have been different in every census. Number of racial categories has fluctuated. Race no longer by observation. Race of houshold members required by law
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-What percent of respondents to Census 2000 identified two or more races ?

 

Definition
2.4% 7 million
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-Percent of the U.S. population made up of members of ethnic and racial subculture?

Definition

10%

minorities are about 1/3 of the population currently

Term

 

Population projections for the percent of the population made up of NonHispanic Whites in the year 2050

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46%
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  Largest racial/ethnic subculture in the United States today
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White, none hispanic
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  Subculture that is most geographically concentrated (i.e. nearly 50% of the population lives in just two states)
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Asian
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-Estimate of the combined buying power of Black, American Indian and Asian consumers in 2007?

Definition

$1361.8 Billion (13.6%)

black: $845.4 billion (8.4%)

Asian:459.3 .(4.6%)

American indian:$57.1 (.6%)

Term
When the concept of “teenager” emerged in the U.S?
Definition
1956
Term
  Consumer segments most susceptible to the phenomena of nostaligia “the good old days” memories of youth.
Definition
Heritage
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