Structured interview
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- Structured Interviews
- validity
- structured interviews usually use close ended questions that restrict interviewees to chewing from a limited number of per set answers . if none of these answers fits what the interviewee really wishes to say then the data obtained will be invalid.
- structured interviews give very little freedom to explain questions or clarify misunderstanding.
- structured interviews usually use close ended questions that restrict interviewees to chewing from a limited number of per set answers . if none of these answers fits what the interviewee really wishes to say then the data obtained will be invalid.
- validity
- Practical issues
- Structured Interviews
- validity
- structured interviews usually use close ended questions that restrict interviewees to chewing from a limited number of per set answers . if none of these answers fits what the interviewee really wishes to say then the data obtained will be invalid.
- structured interviews give very little freedom to explain questions or clarify misunderstanding.
- structured interviews usually use close ended questions that restrict interviewees to chewing from a limited number of per set answers . if none of these answers fits what the interviewee really wishes to say then the data obtained will be invalid.
- validity
- training interviewers is relatively straightforward and cheap.
- they are quick and easy to conduct, so they can therefore cover a lot of people with relatively limited resources.
- Structured Interviews
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- Structured interviews are suitable for gathering straightforward factual information such as a persons age or job.
- they are quick and easy to conduct, so they can therefore cover a lot of people with relatively limited resources.
- Produces data which can be easily quantified.
- Structured interviews are suitable for gathering straightforward factual information such as a persons age or job.
- Structured interviews are suitable for gathering straightforward factual information such as a persons age or job.
- Response Rate
- The large numbers who can be surveyed using structured interviews increases the chances of obtaining a representative sample of the population, although the number of people who can be sample d is still lower than questionnaires.
- Response Rate
- Response Rate
- the response rate can be increased by the researcher making follow up calls, however this increases the cost of the survey. a high response rate increases the representativeness of the sample.
- the type of people who take part in this survey may be lonely or unemployed, thus making the survey unrepresentative.
- Hilary Graham (1983)
- she argues that the researcher is in control of the interview and decides the line of questioning to be followed. this mirrors women's subordination in wider society.
- argues that methods such as questionnaires and structured interviews are patriarchal and give a distorted, invalid picture of women's experience.
- Hilary Graham (1983)
- she argues that the researcher is in control of the interview and decides the line of questioning to be followed. this mirrors women's subordination in wider society.
- Hilary Graham (1983)
- survey methods treat women as isolated individuals rather than seeing them in the context of the power relationships that oppress them.
- argues that methods such as questionnaires and structured interviews are patriarchal and give a distorted, invalid picture of women's experience.
- argues that methods such as questionnaires and structured interviews are patriarchal and give a distorted, invalid picture of women's experience.
- survey impose the research's categories on women , making it difficult for them to express their experienced and concealing the unequal power relationships between the sexes
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