Qualitative Methods

Methods:
  • Ethnographic research
  • Participant and classroom observations
  • Case studies
  • Background and secondary research
  • One-on-one interviews
  • In-depth and gatekeeper interviews
  • Focus groups

Focus Group Goals:

  • Generate hypotheses about products or services
  • Explore opinions, attitudes and motivations
  • Test new product concepts
  • Check appropriateness of Spanish-language or English-language text or creative materials
  • Disaster checks
  • Evaluate radio, television and print advertising or promotional campaigns
  • Identify and pre-test quantitative research items

Research Services:

  • Multicultural subjects
  • Research paradigms, strategies and designs
  • Results frameworks and methodologies
  • Qualitative analysis, interpretation and reportage
  • Development and/or translation of questionnaires and guides
  • Custom recruitment
  • Bilingual moderators, data collectors and trained observers,
    male and female
  • Translations and transcriptions
  • Simultaneous interpretation of group discussions and interviews
  • Recommendations for further research