Interview (research)

An interview in qualitative research is a conversation where questions are invited to elicit information. a interviewer is usually a expert or paid researcher, sometimes trained, who poses questions to the interviewee, in an alternating series of normally brief questions & answers. They can be contrasted with focus groups in which an interviewer questions a chain of people together with observes the resulting conversation between interviewees, or surveys which are more anonymous and limit respondents to a range of predeterminedchoices. In addition, there are special considerations when interviewing children. In phenomenological or ethnographic research, interviews are used to uncover the meanings of central themes in the life world of the subjects from their own point of view.