Structured interviews

Structured interviews

1. Reliability

2. Practical issues

   • Training interviews are inexpensive as they are quite straightforward and is only about following a set of instructions
   • Large numbers pf people can be interviewed with limited resources and is very quick and cheap to administer. However, are not appropriate for using to get large amount of people as postal questionnaires can
   • Suitable for gathering straightforward information about a person, such as, their age or job
   • Suitable for hypothesis testing due to results being easy to quantify as they have closed-ended questions

3. Validity

4. Response rate

5. Inflexibility

6. Feminist criticism