Glossary

Group interview

A method of qualitative data collection. Focus groups are a type of group interview, but others also exist. Group interviews may not focus on interactions of participants, instead a researcher using group interviews might be more interested in collecting individual responses from a large group of people in a group setting for convenience.

Glossary

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Includes focus group interviews, but not exclusively focus groups
Some group interviews focus less on interaction, but are used by researchers to interview many participants concurrently

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Foundational paper (s)

Frey JH, Fontana A. The group interview in social research. The Social Science Journal. 1991 Jan 1;28(2):175-87.