Semi-structured interview is a research method in which the interviewer follows a prepared guide of open-ended questions but retains the flexibility to probe follow-up questions based on the participant's responses. Parameters: (1) a fixed core of questions asked of all participants, (2) permitted deviations for contextual probing, (3) systematic recording of responses. Persistence mechanism: interview guides, researcher training programs, and methodological literature in social science and health research. [formal: interrogatio-semi-structurata | substrate: behavior | horizon: a life | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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semi-structured-interview
Semi-structured interview is a research method in which the interviewer follows a prepared guide of open-ended questions but retains the flexibility to probe follow-up questions based on the participant's responses. Parameters: (1) a fixed…
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Why it is in scope
A human-made research practice: conducting conversations with a predefined set of open-ended questions but allowing flexible follow-up probing based on participant responses. Built to persist through researcher training, interview guides, and methodological literature.
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- semi-structured-interviewen · CANONICAL
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Semi-structured interview is a specific kind of interview (specific→general). It is an interview variant with predefined open-ended questions plus flexible probing.
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A semi-structured interview IS a specific kind of survey instrument — it uses a guided set of questions with flexibility to probe, making it a type of survey instrument. Direction: specific→general per Law 9.
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