Focus groups as alternative research practice: Experience with transmigrants in Indonesia

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Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-123

  Goss, Jon D ^a   Leinbach, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOCUS GROUP; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; TRANSMIGRANTS; TRANSMIGRATION;

INDONESIA;

EID: 0030466863     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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