Contents
Introduction
1 Diversity in interviews
1.1 Types of interviews
Structured and unstructured interviews
Delphi interviews
Other types of interview
1.2 Interviews in qualitative research
1.3 Interviews in feminist research
2 The interviewer
2.1 The tasks of the interviewer
2.2 Interviewer selection
2.3 Interviewer training
3 The process of interviewing
3.1 Finding the respondents
3.2 Conducting the interview
3.3 Ending the interview
3.4 Field supervision and checks
4 Interviewer-respondent relationship
5 Prompting and probing
6 Narrative interview (NI)
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Process of interviewing
7 Intensive interviewing
8 Telephone interviewing
9 The interview context
10 Advantages and limitations of
interviewing
11 Problems and errors in interviewing
12 Non-response in interviewing
13 Interviewing in the computer age
14 Survey methods in comparison
Main points
Where to from here?
Further reading