Focus groups
Willms and Johnson (1993) describe a focus group as :
. . . a discussion in which a small group of informants (six to twelve people), guided by a facilitator, talk freely and spontaneously about themes considered important to the investigation. The participants are selected from a target group whose opinions and ideas are of interest to the researcher. Sessions are usually tape recorded and an observer (recorder) also takes notes on the discussion (p.61).