Understanding resilience attributes for children, youth, and communities in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill study, focus group component

Narrative data were collected from six focus groups conducted in communities in south Louisiana, including Lafourche Parish, Orleans Parish, Plaquemines Parish, St. Tammany Parish, Terrebonne Parish, and Vermilion Parish. Focus group respondents were drawn from a larger sample of respondents included in the multi-wave RCYC survey-component. All focus groups were audio-recorded. The sessions lasted about 90 minutes on average. A series of questions were used to guide the focus group discussions. Audio recordings for the focus groups were transcribed, and the qualitative data from the narrative transcripts were then coded by three researchers. These transcripts were excluded from dataset to maintain confidentiality and anonymity agreements of participants. Final codes resulting from this process along with a detailed summary of the methodology is included in this data set.