• Home
• About
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Author
  • Purpose
  • For Instructors
  • What is Qualitative Research
  • Ethics
  • Ethnicity and Race
• Interviewing
  • Characteristics of Good Interviews
    • Narrative Rich Data
    • Descriptive Data
    • First Hand Accounts
    • Emotions as Data
  • The Complexity of Rich Data
    • The Complexity of Memory
    • Simplifications as a Source of Contradiction
    • The Use of Negative Cases and Unexpected Findings
  • Phrasing Questions and Other Techniques
    • Avoid Yes/No Questions
    • Avoid ”Multiple-choice“ and Double-barreled Questions
    • Don’t Switch Topics Too Frequently
    • Avoid the ‘Why‘ Question
    • Avoid Asking for Little Known Facts
    • Avoid Imposing Concepts
    • Avoid Leading Questions
    • Listen Attentively
    • Ask About Sensitive Issues Skillfully
    • Adjust Questions to the Respondent’s Situation
    • Ask for Clarification
    • Ask Open-ended Questions
    • Ask the Respondent to Tell a Story
    • Ask Questions to Elicit the Personal Voice
  • Field Notes
  • Conventions for Transcribing Interviews
• Reflexivity
  • Process of Reflection
  • Conceptual Baggage
    • Married Women’s Occupation
    • Ethnic Assimilation
    • The Heterosexual Nuclear Family
  • The Research Relationship
• Analysis
  • Introduction
  • Finding a Focus
  • Possible Research Topics
  • Open Coding
  • Focused Coding
  • Developing an Analytical Lens
  • Memoing
  • Formulating the Research Question
  • Using the Literature
  • Drafting the Research Paper
  • Revising the Draft
• Data
  • Selection of Respondents
  • The Interview Archive

Lives & Legacies

A Guide to Qualitative Interviewing

Ping-Chun Hsiung

This Guide facilitates effective teaching and learning of Qualitative Interviewing (QI) by demonstrating good examples and instructive mistakes in data collection, examining epistemological issues on reflexivity, and incorporating analytical lenses in data analysis. The appended data set, which contains a total of 39 interview transcripts of Italian, Tamil, Caribbean and Chinese immigrants to Canada, is invaluable for freeing up class time to teaching/learning higher order skills of analysis and critical thinking.

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