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Tracking and Monitoring of Awareness, Attitude, Behaviour and Influence

Under Freedom of Information some of the information relating to Tracking Research for each campaign cannot be released. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides for information to be exempt from disclosure in certain circumstances. The Tracking Research which relates directly to current advertising campaigns falls within the terms of the exemption under section 22 (1) (a), which relates to information intended for future publication, section 43 (1) which relates to Trade secrets and section 43 (3) which relates to prejudice to commercial interests.
In considering the public interest, the Department has concluded that to publish tracking research which is incomplete would be inappropriate and could prove misleading. Therefore complete tracking research will only become available when a campaign has reached the end of its lifespan.
Research will be carried out immediately after the completion of the initial TV burst of 'Just One' in January 2006.  Whilst we are not permitted to present full tracking research on the effectiveness of our current campaigns we will provide a summary of the key findings when they become available.
Further research will be commissioned on an annual basis to track continued effectiveness of the campaign and its success in reaching the target audience.