Focus Group Design

Focus groups are a confidential group discussion with a trained and skilled moderator using open-ended questions that promote interaction and explore participants' perspectives and experiences in a structured by relaxed atmosphere designed to generate qualitative data. Check out the resources below for best practices.

Focus Groups:

  • Are a qualitative research tool, which yields in-depth descriptions from a small homogeneous sample

  • Cover the maximum range of topics

  • Provide specific data about participants' perspectives and experiences as a basis of their attitudes and opinions

  • Explore participants' experiences in depth

  • Explore the personal context within which the participants offer their attitudes and opinions

Why Focus Groups Are Used:

  • To gather data about how participants make meaning about a topic of interest (sole source)

  • To gather data needed to construct a survey (exploratory)

  • To gather data that can be used to help explain the results of a survey (follow-up)

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