Informant interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and windshield surveys are four methods of directly collecting data. All four methods require sensitivity, openness, curiosity, and the ability to listen, taste, touch, smell, and see life as it is lived in a community (Bernal, Sheliman, and Reid, 2004). Either informant interviews or focus groups, which consist of directed talks with selected members of a community about community members or groups and events, are basic to effective data generation