Qualitative data collection: interviews

What is a semi-structured interview?

Why and how transcribe an interview?

Helps to systemize and keep records of your interviews

Helps to build a solid sample overview table to your thesis

Interview information: Number, gender, age, date, place, length of interview, length of transcription.

Write audio file into a text - word by word

Interview structure

Quantitative vs Qualitative

Sample composition

Which sample composition is ok for qualitative

How many interviews is enough?

Giving evidence of what and how well you did

How to find people

How to write an email for interview

When should you shut down the recording device

When should you switch off the recorder?

A good interview

How to form questions

What to do when your respondent talks a lot but does not answer the question

Giving evidence that your paper is logical

Your theoretical part → your questions → findings

Connect theoretical and empirical parts

How long the interview should be

hold the pause

How time-consuming is the process of transcribing

Why do we need a transcript