CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Survey Methodology, Content Analysis, Group Dynamics
17 Mar 2016
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Nov 25 focus groups, ield research, secondary data & content analysis. Focus groups: small group discussion led by trained moderator(s, purpose: elicit & understand range of opinions, experiences, paricipants chosen for relevance to issue or representaion of subgroups. Sis focus groups: police oicers, health care workers, iv drug neighbourhood. Uses of focus groups users, residents: primary data source for non-experimental or case study, in early stage of study to understand issues. Quesionnaire development, concepts/language: help determine future study procedures. Ex. best ime for heroin dealers you would understand it beter: help with preliminary data analysis. Should be knowledgeable about the study: analysis and presening results what are you going to do with the collected data. Paricipants: convenience or probability sample, eligibility criteria. For individuals and overall group composiion: size: ~6-12 persons, 1 or muliple fgs. Listen to how people talk to each other. Provide general feel for consensus among group: disadvantage. Not good for understanding variance within a group.
