Conducting In-Depth Interviews: A Guide for Designing and Conducting In-Depth Interviews for Evaluation Input

This guide aims to assist people in conducting individual interviews which can yield detailed information about a person's thoughts and behaviours. In-depth interviewing is a qualitative research technique that involves conducting intensive individual interviews with a small number of respondents to explore their perspectives on a particular idea, programme, or situation. According to the authors, this technique is useful when the aim is to find out about existing behaviours or to explore new issues in depth. Interviews are often used to provide context to other data (such as outcome data), offering a more complete picture of what happened in the programme and why.

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