Interviews and Questionnaires

• Interview


  An interviewer and interviewee interact asking and answering questions

  Can be face to face, phone, virtually

  Allows data to be collected in real time
• Structured interview


  Prepared list of questions/interview schedule

  Interview follows exact script and does not ask follow up questions
• Semi-structured interview


  Some of the questions are preplanned

  Interviews can ask follow up questions
• Unstructured interview


  More like a conversation

  General aim but no or few questions planned

  Questions based on participants responses
• Questionnaire


  Prepared list of questions that a person answers

  Face to face, over phone or by post
• Open questions


  No fixed range of answers

  Participants free to answer how they wish

  Qualitative data
• Closed questions


  Fixed range of answers

  Yes/no, multiple choice, Likert scale

  Quantitative data