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Nielsen Announces ‘Weighty’ Decisions on Hispanic, Black, DVR Households

Published on May 02, 2007 | Email this article

Nielsen has announced that it may decide to weight results for households equipped with digital video recorders and digital cable TV services in order to make it more representative of the national population, writes MediaPost.

The announcement comes just a week after Nielsen released its first official estimate for U.S. DVR population, which it placed at 17.2 percent. That number is higher than the 15.8 percent of Nielsen’s national TV ratings sample that are equipped with DVRs, which may indicate that Nielsen is having a difficult time recruiting enough DVR users into its national sample.

Nielsen also said that it will begin to further weight its “black/non-black and Hispanic/non-Hispanic household controls, as well as persons’ age and gender controls within Hispanic households” effective in September 2008. The decision appears to have been made without consulting Nielsen’s clients, which may spark a debate over its validity.

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