Qualitative Interviews

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Qualitative research is a methodologically approach used to gather an in-depth understanding of human behaviour and reasons for such behaviour. Interviews are commonly used to gather information, from which text, audio and/or visual data is collected. Inorder for these interviews to be successful, the researcher must first establish rapport with the interviewees to ensure easy exchange of information most especially if its personal.

Therefore, how would I establish rapport with the interviewees?
By being more accomodative during the interviews like having social talk before and after the interview. This will show the interviewees that am interested in knowing about their personal lives not just the interview itself. This comes in once the …show more content…

This would prevent me from coming off as judgemental to particular human behaviour portrayed by the interviewees.

Building rapport and active listening skills are part of the unique skill-sets an interviewer must posses to ensure successful qualitative research. Qualitative research is considered 'messy' because you deal with data you have been provided with using different techniques to make informed conclusions about particular human behaviour. Therefore, one must have a specific set of analytical skills to deal with the diversity of data. Where as in quantitative research, the data collected is more precise due to structured means of data collection.
During interviews, the researcher must have great observation skills especially in regard to the interviewees' body language, because these observations come in handy when transcribing audio and visual data. Unlike in quantitative research, where the observation skills may have less impact when analysing data collected.
In qualitative research, one requires patience with the interviewee when conducting interviews most especially when it comes to answering sensitive questions and durations of the interviews. However in quantitative research, once the researcher builds rapport or conveys the importance of the survey, answering open ended questions is

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