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		<title>Melissa Jones at 03:23, 21 April 2015</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l5&quot; &gt;Line 5:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ipsos MORI's Social Research Institute works extensively for UK government and public services, looking at public attitudes to key public services which formed a key part of the [[New Labour]] Government's domestic agenda in 1997-2005. Social policy, and issues such as identity, social cohesion, physical capital and the impact of place on attitudes are all key themes of the Institute's work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ipsos MORI's Social Research Institute works extensively for UK government and public services, looking at public attitudes to key public services which formed a key part of the [[New Labour]] Government's domestic agenda in 1997-2005. Social policy, and issues such as identity, social cohesion, physical capital and the impact of place on attitudes are all key themes of the Institute's work.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The company also specialises in &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Media&lt;/del&gt;, &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Loyalty &lt;/del&gt;and &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Marketing &lt;/del&gt;and &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Advertising Research&lt;/del&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The company also specialises in &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;media&lt;/ins&gt;, &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;loyalty &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;marketing &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;advertising research&lt;/ins&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In June 2005, Robert Worcester stepped down from &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;charimanship &lt;/del&gt;of MORI and became its &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Life President&lt;/del&gt;. MORI was bought by the French research agency [[Ipsos]] in October 2005 for £88 million and is now known as 'Ipsos MORI'. Richard Silman is &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Executive Chairman &lt;/del&gt;and Brian Gosschalk &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;Chief Executive&lt;/del&gt;. Worcester is chairman of the advisory board of Ipsos Public Affairs worldwide.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;In June 2005, Robert Worcester stepped down from &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;chairmanship &lt;/ins&gt;of MORI and became its &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;life president&lt;/ins&gt;. MORI was bought by the French research agency [[Ipsos]] in October 2005 for £88 million and is now known as 'Ipsos MORI'. &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Richard Silman&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;is &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;executive chairman &lt;/ins&gt;and &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Brian Gosschalk&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;]] chief executive&lt;/ins&gt;. Worcester is chairman of the advisory board of &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;[[&lt;/ins&gt;Ipsos Public Affairs&lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;]] &lt;/ins&gt;worldwide.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ipsos MORI's research is conducted via a wide range of methodologies, especially telephone, face-to-face and internet surveys. Around half the company's sampling will involve random probability methods, either face to face or by telephone.  Telephone surveys use a method called [[random digit dialing]]. This system basically uses randomly generated, but area-specific, telephone numbers. This is the preferred method because it is quick as the interviewer does not need to manually dial the phone and also creates a less biased result as the company do not know who they are calling within each geographic area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ipsos MORI's research is conducted via a wide range of methodologies, especially telephone, face-to-face and internet surveys. Around half the company's sampling will involve random probability methods, either face to face or by telephone.  Telephone surveys use a method called [[random digit dialing]]. This system basically uses randomly generated, but area-specific, telephone numbers. This is the preferred method because it is quick as the interviewer does not need to manually dial the phone and also creates a less biased result as the company do not know who they are calling within each geographic area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The telephone surveys are conducted by '''MTS''' (''MORI Telephone Surveys''). Their call centers are based all over the UK. Their largest call center is in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] but much research is still conducted in [[London]], [[England]] and [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. Since the [[Ipsos]] takeover their operations have expanded as now research is conducted in other parts of the world such as [[Canada]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;The telephone surveys are conducted by '''MTS''' (''MORI Telephone Surveys''). Their call centers are based all over the UK. Their largest call center is in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] but much research is still conducted in [[London]], [[England]] and [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. Since the [[Ipsos]] takeover their operations have expanded as now research is conducted in other parts of the world such as [[Canada]].&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;==People==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;==External links==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Melissa Jones</name></author>
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		<title>Melissa Jones: categories, ref code page needs update</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5215921-103676,00.html Sir Bob quits MORI chairmanship] ''[[The Guardian]]'' June 2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5215921-103676,00.html Sir Bob quits MORI chairmanship] ''[[The Guardian]]'' June 2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1588995,00.html French rival snaps up MORI] ''Media Guardian'' October 2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1588995,00.html French rival snaps up MORI] ''Media Guardian'' October 2005&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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	<entry>
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		<title>David at 13:15, 11 November 2006</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''Ipsos MORI''' is the second largest survey research organisation in the UK, formed by two of the UK's leading companies in October 2005. '''MORI''' (''Market &amp;amp; Opinion Research International''), was originally founded in [[1969]] by [[Robert Worcester]], and was the largest ''independent'' research organisation in the [[United Kingdom]]. [[Ipsos]] is one of the largest survey research organisations in the world, with offices in dozens of countries, founded in the mid 1970s in France by Didier Truchot and Jean Marc Lech.&lt;br /&gt;
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The organisation has a freely available archive of opinion polls and public attitude research from 1970 onwards, including trends on its UK website.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ipsos MORI's Social Research Institute works extensively for UK government and public services, looking at public attitudes to key public services which formed a key part of the [[New Labour]] Government's domestic agenda in 1997-2005. Social policy, and issues such as identity, social cohesion, physical capital and the impact of place on attitudes are all key themes of the Institute's work.&lt;br /&gt;
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The company also specialises in Media, Loyalty and Marketing and Advertising Research.&lt;br /&gt;
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In June 2005, Robert Worcester stepped down from charimanship of MORI and became its Life President. MORI was bought by the French research agency [[Ipsos]] in October 2005 for £88 million and is now known as 'Ipsos MORI'. Richard Silman is Executive Chairman and Brian Gosschalk Chief Executive. Worcester is chairman of the advisory board of Ipsos Public Affairs worldwide. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Ipsos MORI's research is conducted via a wide range of methodologies, especially telephone, face-to-face and internet surveys. Around half the company's sampling will involve random probability methods, either face to face or by telephone.  Telephone surveys use a method called [[random digit dialing]]. This system basically uses randomly generated, but area-specific, telephone numbers. This is the preferred method because it is quick as the interviewer does not need to manually dial the phone and also creates a less biased result as the company do not know who they are calling within each geographic area.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The telephone surveys are conducted by '''MTS''' (''MORI Telephone Surveys''). Their call centers are based all over the UK. Their largest call center is in [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] but much research is still conducted in [[London]], [[England]] and [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]]. Since the [[Ipsos]] takeover their operations have expanded as now research is conducted in other parts of the world such as [[Canada]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==External links==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.ipsos-mori.com Ipsos MORI Website]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.ipsos-mori.com/mts MTS Information]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.ipsos-mori.com/index-news.phtml Recent Research]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.ipsos.com Ipsos Website]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5215921-103676,00.html Sir Bob quits MORI chairmanship] ''[[The Guardian]]'' June 2005&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1588995,00.html French rival snaps up MORI] ''Media Guardian'' October 2005&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>David</name></author>
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