Structured interviewing - The structured interview
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What is a structured interview?
What are characteristics of structured interview?
- aggregate replies
- Standardization of questioning and recording
Explain the impact of interviewer behaviour on the variability.
- Intra-interviewer variability: an interview is not consistent in the way he or she asks and records questions.
- Inter-interviewer variability: more than one interviewer and interviewers are not consistent with each other in the ways they ask/ record.
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What are advantages of structured interviewing?
- reduces variation due to error: intra and inter
What are advantages of closed-questions?
- close questions facilitate the processing of data
Explain coding variability. ( does not occur with closed questions)
- Inter-coder variability: coder differ from each other in the way in which the rules for assigning answers to categories are implemented.
What are the major types of interviewing?
- Standaridzed interview =
- semi-structured interview = sequence of questions can vary, questions somewhat more general than in structured interview
- unstructured interview = only a list of topics, more like a conversation (interview guide)
- intensive interview
- qualitative interview
- in-depth interview
- focused interview
- focus group
- group interview
- oral history interview
- life history
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