JNLR

_feedback_

I see more talk of JNLR figures, and every time I see it, I wonder where there figures come from.

The JNLR say they interview 16,800 individuals aged over 15 across 50 weeks of the year.

How have I never met a person that was interviewed?

Have you been interviewed or know a person who has?

JNLR website wrote:

Interviewing
Interviewing is conducted face-to-face, in-home, among a sample
of c.16,800 individuals aged 15+ in the Republic of Ireland.
Interviewing is conducted across 50 weeks of the year (exception
week before and after Christmas).
Universe Estimates
Audience estimates emerging in the reports are presented as a
percentage of the population and in terms of numbers of
thousands of listeners.
The universe estimate is based on data provided by CSO-Census
2016.
Fieldwork
Interviewing is conducted by fully trained and experienced interviewers.
During the course of the survey, interviewing standards are maintained
via checking of completed assignments, supervision provided by Ipsos
MRBI Field Management team, and through a telephone authenticity
check with c.10% of respondents

hullaballoo

It's a very small number compared to the population. I remember checking whether it was even enough to give a competent sample size in the past and it is for statistical purposes and it is but, let's face it, statistics is about as inexact as maths gets even with all the ways they try and counteract the inexactitude.

If someone who's better at maths wants to confirm my numbers, great, but I think it's about 3 in every 1,000 people who actually get interviewed for these, so I'm not surprised I've never been asked and to the best of my knowledge, no one in my close circle of friends have been either. I wouldn't necessarily expect to be told by any of my close friends unless they were aware of my interest in radio. I certainly don't think anyone in my wider circle of friends/acquaintances would have any reason to tell me they were interviewed.

Einstein A. Gogo

Likewise I've never heard of anyone being interviewed for JNLRs either.

hullaballoo

As if to prove a point on the lack of reliability in statistics, 2 of 13 voters on the poll above have apparently been interviewed for JNLRs despite the odds suggesting it would be nowhere near as many as 2 until there were 600+ votes. :pac:

RXTX

This is what the JNLRs are like:

salmocab

hullaballoo wrote: »

As if to prove a point on the lack of reliability in statistics, 2 of 13 voters on the poll above have apparently been interviewed for JNLRs despite the odds suggesting it would be nowhere near as many as 2 until there were 600+ votes. :pac:

Although it’s done 4 times a year so just because they were interviewed once doesn’t mean much it’s 4 a year by how many years? That all said I’m always dubious about these figures same with the television ones. I suppose with radio it’s more about market share as pretty much all our radio is Irish whereas mostly our tv is foreign viewing

Losty Dublin

salmocab wrote: »

Although it’s done 4 times a year so just because they were interviewed once doesn’t mean much it’s 4 a year by how many years? That all said I’m always dubious about these figures same with the television ones. I suppose with radio it’s more about market share as pretty much all our radio is Irish whereas mostly our tv is foreign viewing

TV audience research figures are a lot more exact than those for radio.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/the-late-late-toy-show-should-be-a-ratings-topper-again-but-how-are-tv-audiences-counted-1.3312362

salmocab

Losty Dublin wrote: »

TV audience research figures are a lot more exact than those for radio.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/the-late-late-toy-show-should-be-a-ratings-topper-again-but-how-are-tv-audiences-counted-1.3312362

Even at that 1050 households and it relies on people logging in on a remote to be recorded seems fairly loose to be making big extrapolations, although again just like radio it’s more market share from an advertising point of view.

dxhound2005

_feedback_ wrote: »

I see more talk of JNLR figures, and every time I see it, I wonder where there figures come from.

The JNLR say they interview 16,800 individuals aged over 15 across 50 weeks of the year.

How have I never met a person that was interviewed?

Have you been interviewed or know a person who has?

I may have met people who were surveyed, but none of them ever mentioned it. Not just JNLR but the thousands political surveys which must have been done in my lifetime.

hullaballoo

Actually, I was interviewed for a political poll once.

It's in my nature to try and skew statistics as much as I possibly can so all my answers were off the wall. I wonder how many people are like me in that regard per any given sample size?

L1011

I was interviewed once. I live in Maynooth where nobody at all listens to KFM and Dublin stations have significant audience so I suspect a lot of my responses went to "Other".

Beyond the national stations and KFM, iRadio, Nova and 4FM are licenced here and I suspect i/Nova pick up a huge reported audience as a result.

chilloutrelax

The most shocking result of this JNLR is what has happened to 98fm in terms of market share. They are now behind sunshine 106.8 and Q102. What a disaster. I wonder what they will do to address this?

MrPops

chilloutrelax wrote: »

The most shocking result of this JNLR is what has happened to 98fm in terms of market share. They are now behind sunshine 106.8 and Q102. What a disaster. I wonder what they will do to address this?

That's old news. They have been on a decline for years. I don't know ONE SINGLE PERSON who listens to it. The powers that be need to open up the band to smaller niche stations. More people would be listening on FM and stations like 98fm might get a bump as a result. But that would be USING their heads.

iseegirls

MrPops wrote: »

That's old news. They have been on a decline for years. I don't know ONE SINGLE PERSON who listens to it. The powers that be need to open up the band to smaller niche stations. More people would be listening on FM and stations like 98fm might get a bump as a result. But that would be USING their heads.

But this has the all mighty, all conquering Dara Quilty on it. Surely it can't be losing listeners. :pac:

Personally, I loved it only a few years ago back when I had Ray Foley on before work, and Dermot & Dave after work. Since they left I have barely listened to a minute of it.

dxhound2005

MrPops wrote: »

That's old news. They have been on a decline for years. I don't know ONE SINGLE PERSON who listens to it. The powers that be need to open up the band to smaller niche stations. More people would be listening on FM and stations like 98fm might get a bump as a result. But that would be USING their heads.

Whenever I am in Dublin I can get over 30 stations on the car radio on FM. I don't understand how putting more stations on would help any of the existing ones. I don't know a single person listening to 98 either but I don't regard that as statistically significant.