Question

What do you mean by interview and differentiate between interview and questionnaire.

Answer 1

Interview:

• Interview is a face to face interaction between two people.

• They can be structured or unstructured.

• Interviews are flexible, questions can be added or altered.

• Interviewer can dig deeper by posing counter question and by noticing non- verbal clues.

• They are subjective in nature.

• It is not a good tool for those who cannot express themselves verbally.

• It requires highly skilled person as interviewer.

Questionnaire:

• It consists of a form containing a series of questions where the respondents themselves fill in the answers.

• Questionnaire is always structured.

• It is not possible to know anything more that what is asked in the question.

• They are highly objective.

• Sometimes someone else can also fill in the questionnaire other than the target person.

• Clarification of questions is sometimes not possible.

• They are highly objective.

Interview is a face to face interaction between two people.