I am debating on whether to use a questionnaire pre-interview to gain characteristic information about the respondent.
I am working in an area of disadvantage, and it would be good to gain some information about them such as age, number of children, time in employment, disability etc. the question structure come from the UK census. However, I am not sure whether this goes against the ethos of NI.
What do you think?
TIA
Dear Jessica,
Reading your question engendered several queries regarding the aim of your use of questionnaire. As you probably already identified your sample and decided on the data collecting method to be the interview; what would be the reason to use the (self/other-administrated) questionnaire to collect data that can be collected via interview? Especially that data to be collected are facts (not opinions) and needn’t method triangulation.
Regards
Yes, this is what I guess.
I am using a free flow type of interview using Biographical Interperative Methods. This means that they may not give me the answers to age, disability, work status as they tell me their life story.
I am guessing when I go to write up the narrative, it would be good to write their age, nationality, ethnicity, how many children they have, whether they view themselves as disabled or sick, and their employment status as to "set the scene".
I am battling with my aims on using such a questionnaire
Dear Jessica
I have the same doubt as Muhammad about the need to apply a questionnaire prior to the interviews. In-depth interviews allow you to get information about the participants at the beginning of the interview. In fact, this part of the interview allows to generate rapport.
In addition, it is important to remember that when you report your qualitative sample in an article, you must provide at least the following data of the participants:
1) Identification (first name, better if you change it)
2) Sex
2) Age
3) Occupation
Regards,
Jorge
Yes, it should be necessary to use a short questionnaire for biographical data, but I 'll use it only after narrative interview.
Best regards
Giovanna
Thank you all. I guess what I mean is a demographic questionnaire. This has been useful thanks
I suppose it depends on how you use the questionniare. Your description of how you intend to use it seems appropriate. I'm conducting a narrative study that uses a questionnaire as a screening tool to identify participants for my purposive sample. The participants selected will then be interviewed, and their demographic data will also be used in the write-up, as it is an integral part of my particular study along with other information gathered in my screening survey because the purpose of my survey is to identify very specific participants for the narrative piece. My target participants are so "unusual" that if I were to use only interviews without first using some sort of screening survey, many months would be wasted on in-depth interviews in order to identify the small sample I intend to use. What is your theoretical framework? Intersectionality theory seems like it might be a good fit since you are working in an area of disadvantage. In that case, a questionnaire can be useful in obtaining information relevant to how intersecting identities come into play in the lived experiences of your respondents.
Hi,
I use narrative interviews and have a questionnaire to make sure I've got all these details if they don't emerge in the narrative but I go through it after the interview not before. At times this itself can be revealing as the 'answer' to a direct question can vary slightly from the narrative.
In my opinion, depends on the meaning we give to the questionnaire. The biographical data questionnaire is short and contains only the data we need with closed responses.
Also, in the narrative interview, I use an interview track with very open questions that let me know if I have investigated and with what depth the areas of interest.
In my opinion, there are two different things, but they can be together
Giovanna
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