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The Interview Research Method
By Saul McLeod, published 2014
Interviews are different from questionnaires as they involve social interaction. Unlike questionnaires methods, researchers need training in how to interview (which costs money).
Researchers can ask different types of questions which in turn generate different types of data. For example, closed questions provide people with a fixed set of responses, whereas open questions allow people to express what they think in their own words.
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Structured Interview
Unstructured Interview
Focus Group Interview
Interviewer Effect
Interview Design
Quite often interviews will be recorded by the researcher and the data written up as a transcript (a written account of interview questions and answers) which can be analyzed at a later date.
It should be noted that interviews may not be the best method to use for researching sensitive topics (e.g. truancy in schools, discrimination etc.) as people may feel more comfortable completing a questionnaire in private.
Interviews take many forms, some very informal, others more structured.
Structured Interview
A structured interview is a quantitative research method where the interviewer a set of prepared closed-ended questions in the form of an interview schedule, which he/she reads out exactly as worded.
Interviews schedules have a standardized format which means the same questions are asked to each interviewee in the same order (see Fig. 1).
interview schedule example
Figure 1. An example of an interview schedule
The interviewer will not deviate from the interview schedule (except to clarify the meaning of the question) or probe beyond the answers received.
A structured interview is also known as a formal interview (like a job interview).
Strengths
1. Structured interviews are easy to replicate as a fixed set of closed questions are used, which are easy to quantify – this means it is easy to test for reliability.
2. Structured interviews are fairly quick to conduct which means that many interviews can take place within a short amount of time. This means a large sample can be obtained resulting in the findings being representative and having the ability to be generalized to a large population.
Limitations
1. Structure interviews are not flexible. This means new questions cannot be asked impromptu (i.e. during the interview) as an interview schedule must be followed.
2. The answers from structured interviews lack detail as only closed questions are asked which generates quantitative data. This means a researcher won't know why a person behaves in a certain way.