They note that the anthropological linguists Boas and Sapir (who we take to be proto-Emergentists) used the 'ask the informant' method of informal elicitation, addressing questions "to the informant's perception rather than to the data directly" (1951: 324).
Through a key informant method, four language testing researchers sat for the TOEFL iBT and reported their experiences through two externally mediated focus groups.
The key informant method has several important advantages.
Recently, two different methodologies have been explored to estimate prevalence of fistula in community settings using a key informant method and the sisterhood method [ 11, 18].
The Key Informant Method (KIM) offers an alternative method for estimating the prevalence of rare conditions, including childhood blindness and childhood disability [ 12, 13].
The psychosis and mood disorder sections of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview [ 31] (CIDI) 2.1 were supplemented by the Key Informant method in order to find possible cases [ 30].
This project was conducted to carry out a situational analysis of fistula services in South Sudan and to pilot test the Key Informant Method (KIM) to estimate the prevalence of fistula in a region of South Sudan.
Multiple informant methods can be used to test whether the information relayed by different informants (in this case, whether exposure is measured during different time windows) relates in the same manner to an outcome of interest.
Future research utilizing multi-informant methods might offer additional utility in examining the relationship between problem behaviors and suicidality among youth.
