What are some advantages of focus group interviewing?
What will be an ideal response?
1. It is highly flexible (in terms of number of participants, groups, costs, duration, etc.)
2. It permits the gathering of a large amount of information from potentially large groups of people in relatively short periods of time.
3. It can generate important insights into topics that previously were not well understood.
4. It allows researchers to better understand how members of a group arrive at, or alter, their conclusions about some topic or issue and provides access to interactionary clues.
5. It can be used to gather information from transient populations.
6. It places participants on a more even footing with each other and the investigator.
7. The moderator can explore related but unanticipated topics as they arise in the course of the group's discussion.
8. Focus groups do not usually require complex sampling strategies.
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