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Nuria Matilla-Santander1, Marcela Fu2, Montse Ballbè3
1Grupo de Evaluación de Determinantes de Salud y Políticas Sanitarias, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, España.
Abstract:
Consumer panels are a market research method useful for gathering information about low-frequency or difficult-access customers. The objective of this field-note is to explain our experience using this method in a cross-sectional public health study on the use of electronic cigarettes. After taking into account other non-probabilistic sampling techniques to obtain a huge sample of electronic-cigarette users (n=600), in the end we decided to use consumer panels (recruiters) because of the relative short duration of the field work and the high representativeness of the sample.
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