Structured interviewing - The structured interview

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What is a structured interview?

Entails the administration of an interview schedule by an interviewer.

What are characteristics of structured interview?

- Same context of questioning
- aggregate replies
- Standardization of questioning and recording

Explain the impact of interviewer behaviour on the variability.

  1. Intra-interviewer variability: an interview is not consistent in the way he or she asks and records questions.
  2. 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?

- variations in people's replies are due to 'true' or 'real' variation and not due to interview context.
- reduces variation due to error: intra and inter

What are advantages of closed-questions?

- Interviewer variability is reduced because of the limited choice of possible answers.
- close questions facilitate the processing of data

Explain coding variability. ( does not occur with closed questions)

- intra-coder variability: coder varies over time in the way in which the rules for assigning answers to categories are implemented.
- 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?

- Structured interview = each interviewee gets the same questions in the same way. Survey but done by a interviewer.
- 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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