unstructured interview

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The analysis draws on broadcast tapes and agendas of the event, as well as six unstructured interviews conducted in 2001 with organizers and witnesses.
In the second stage, implementation was concurrent, with qualitative (participant observation, unstructured interviews, and seminar) and quantitative (final survey) instruments being employed simultaneously.
The qualitative method used could be characterised as a form of participant observation rather than simply a series of qualitative or unstructured interviews.
After first contacts and questionnaires, 50 half-structured and 50 unstructured interviews were conducted.
In addition to the questionnaire survey, intensive unstructured interviews with 30 respondents were conducted over a four-year period, from 1983 to 1987.
Unstructured interviews are very useful in ethnographic studies because they allow long interactions where participants can speak openly and give their own narrative accounts of a particular topic.
Direct and indirect elicitation methods are examined in this chapter, with an in-depth consideration and comparison of structured versus unstructured interviewing techniques and retrospective versus observational case studies.
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