Focus Group Guide on Veterinarian Education Barriers in Canada, 2024-2025

Five focus groups were conducted with Canadian bovine veterinarians between December 2024 and April 2025. The discussion guide used to moderate these groups was authored by Carter, Havelah and harvested from the Borealis Dataverse platform. This text data captures perceptions of barriers to continuing education programs for dairy veterinarians.

Use Cases

• Analyze thematic patterns in professional barriers based on the focus group discussion prompts.
• Train NLP models for qualitative coding of interview transcripts based on the structured guide topics.
• Compare perceived educational barriers across different veterinary sectors or regions based on the study's focus.

Strengths

• Data collection involved five distinct focus groups, providing multiple perspectives.
• Study has a defined temporal scope from December 2024 to April 2025.
• The discussion guide provides a structured framework for the qualitative data collected.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The raw data files (e.g., transcripts) and their formats are not described.

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Focus group discussions moderated using a structured guide.

Time Range

December 2024 to April 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2025-11-14 03:45:54; freshness should be verified

Geography

Canada