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  • 73.20.1 Market research and similar services

    This category includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models, surveys or existing data etc.

    This category excludes:

    • advertising services, see 73.1
    • public opinion polling services, see 73.20.20
  • 73.20.11 Market research services: qualitative surveys

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models, surveys etc.
    • (in-depth) interviews with one or several persons (e.g. focus groups) with open answers not to be quantified in intervals
    • often based on case studies
  • 73.20.12 Market research services: quantitative ad-hoc surveys

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models, surveys etc.
    • surveys that are carried out only once
  • 73.20.13 Market research services: quantitative continuous and regular surveys

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models, surveys etc.
    • surveys that are carried out on a regular basis and the answers can be grouped by intervals
  • 73.20.14 Market research services: social media analysis

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models etc.
    • social media analysis using data from social media without carrying out surveys

    This subcategory excludes:

    • Market research services: data analysis using big data and other existing data, see 73.20.15
  • 73.20.15 Market research services: data analysis using big data and other existing data

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models etc.
    • market research analysis using already existing big data or other existing data from different sources without carrying out surveys.

    This subcategory excludes:

    • Market research services: social media analysis, see 73.20.14
  • 73.20.16 Other market research services

    This subcategory includes:

    • market analysis, analysis of competition, behaviour and consumption of consumers and users.
    • use of research monographs, statistics, econometric models, surveys etc.

    This subcategory excludes:

    • market research services: quantitative continuous and regular surveys, see 73.20.13
    • market research services: social media analysis, see 73.20.14
    • market research services: data analysis using big data and other existing data, 73.20.15
  • 73.20.2 Public opinion polling services
  • 73.20.20 Public opinion polling services

    This subcategory includes:

    • investigation services designed to secure information on public opinions regarding social, economic, political and other issues

    This subcategory excludes:

    • similar investigation services designed to gather intelligence on consumer attitudes and preferences, see 73.20.1