Focus groups with children: Do they work?

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 86-89

  Large, Andrew ^a   Beheshti, Jarnshid ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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