Solved: List at least five reasons why unstructured interviews are inferior

UNSTUCTURED INTERVIEWS

Unstructured interviews are inferior to structured interview because :

• An interview schedule might not be used, and even if one is used, they will contain open-ended questions.
• Some questions might be missed, so that the interviewer may not get proper decision.
• It us time consuming to conduct an unstructured interview.
• It gives qualitative data and consumes more time for the data analysis.
• People say and do different things indifferent way
• Language barriers may appear, leads to mid understanding and communication problem.
• Researcher’s bias in conducting and collecting data leads to wrong selection.
• There is sometimes little control affects the quality of an interview.
• Attention may not be focused on a given issue.
• It is difficult to directly compare the results of in-depth interviews because unstructured interviews are unique.
• Only small samples can be interviewed so that the results are unlikely to be representative of a particular population.
• Flow like an everyday coversation.
• Ethical issues – In an interview it may be hard to answer some questions that may be sensitive or that interviewee doesnot want to talk about and also issues with confidentiality in sensitive topic.
• Respondents tend to open about and even exaggerate aspects of their behaviour which they see as socially desirable.
• Respondents have the opportunity to tell lies.

All these issues affects the quality of an interview and the the end result.

In an structured interview these issues are eliminated and the get qualuty end results.

This barriers leads unstructured interview as an inferior to structured interview.