Table 2 Crosstabulation; Number of groups and authors' explanation for number of groups
From: What about N? A methodological study of sample-size reporting in focus group studies
Number of groups | Authors' explanation | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | No explanation | Practical reasons | Recommended by literature | Saturation | Capacity to analyse data | Â |
1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
2 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18 |
3 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 29 |
4 | 25 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 33 |
5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 13 |
6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 19 |
7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
12 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
14-96 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
No info | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
Total | 183 | 3 | 6 | 28 | 0 | 220 |