Practical exercises
1
Devise an interview guide, including probes, prompts and relevant instructions
for interviewers to be employed in an investigation of public attitudes to
police brutality in Northern Newland (recently reported in the popular media).
2
To establish the needs of young people in a rural town, the council decided to
conduct an interview with persons under 21 years of age. Your task is to develop
a complete interview guide and to arrange the interview conditions. Which type
of interview is most suitable?
3 You have been given the task of investigating low church attendance rates in your area. The method of data collection is intensive interviewing. Explain how you will address this problem, what arrangements you will make to collect the information and what precautions you will take to assure that the information you gather is genuine.