Interviews

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  • Created on: 17-12-18 10:30
Structured Interviews / formal interviews
Strict instructions on how to ask questions, conducted in a standardised way
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Unstructured / Informal interviews
Like a guided conversation - complete freedom to ask questions and follow ups.
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Semi-structured interviews
Set of questions but can probe for more information
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Group interviews
Few people being interviewed together to discuss.
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Structured: Practical
Straight forward and inexpensive, cover large numbers of people
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Structured: Response rate
make call backs or offer incentives to get more people to respond
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Structured: Feminist criticisms
Hilary Graham 1983 - Structured interviews are patriarchal and distorted.
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Unstructured: rapport and sensitivity
Put interviewee at ease and encourages them to open up more
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:Unstructured: Checking understanding
Check each others understanding of Q & As
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Unstructured: Quantification
Open-ended questions - answers cannot be pre-coded and difficult to count up & quantify
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Like a guided conversation - complete freedom to ask questions and follow ups.

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Unstructured / Informal interviews

Card 3

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Set of questions but can probe for more information

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Card 4

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Few people being interviewed together to discuss.

Back

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Card 5

Front

Straight forward and inexpensive, cover large numbers of people

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