In surveys, primary questions are those that come first.
Individual interviews are those conducted by one interviewer; group interviews are those conducted by more than one interviewer.
Unique interviews are those involving one respondent interviewed alone.
Soft interviews are those that are easy to answer; hard are those containing difficult questions, being more complicated to answer.
'Formal textual analysis’ is a technique of data analysis employed in narrative interviewing.
The technique where two interviewers each conduct an interview, compare their results, identify agreements and disagreements, and so on, is the ‘convergent interview’.
The technique where the researcher interviews experts, prepares a report, hands it to the experts and discusses the results with them is called the ‘Delphi interview’.
Ethnographic interviews focus on a key informant or experts and aim to study general social and cultural issues.
Neutral interviews are those where the interviewer asks neutral questions.
In feminist research, interviewing is considered to be a very useful method: it is valued for its openness, qualitative nature and interviewee-guided mode, and is employed predominately in studies aimed at social reforms.