Strategies for conducting elite interviews

Qualitative telephone interviews: Strategies for success

Strategies for estimating behavioural frequency in survey interviews.

When people answer survey questions of the form "During the past month, how many times did you...?" their responses provide valuable data for researchers and policy makers. Yet the way respondents produce their answers to these "behavioural frequency questions" is not well understood. This article demonstrates that survey respondents can use an array of distinct estimation strategies, depending...

Recruiting for and Conducting Qualitative Telephone Interviews to Study Dispersed Groups, Virtual Organizations, and Distributed Communities

This paper provides a flexible framework for email recruitment and telephone interview for studying dispersed groups, virtual organizations, and distributed communities whose work, interaction, and communication are primarily mediated by communication technologies. We argue that under the appropriate conditions, telephone interviewing can yield high quality data, thus it be considered a product...

Practical suggestions for conducting oral histories and semi- structured interviews in the pilot-phase

The only structure is provided by the selection of a specific point in time as the focus of the research. The narration has to emerge from it. A very general indication for the oral histories you will have to collect can be starting from 1984, the year of famine, which also saw the first massive involvement of the international community in Darfur. You can than move to the change in regime of 1...

Holistic Experiences and Strategies for Conducting Research With Couples.

In this article, we outline methodological considerations for conducting research interviews with couples. We draw from two qualitative men's health studies, both developed to explore social interactions between men and their partners of either sex in relation to their health practices. We utilized a combination of separate interviews and joint couple interviews. From these studies, we offer in...