In structured interviews the interviewee is given the opportunity to talk freely about events behavior and beliefs in relation to topic area.

In the interview, new aspects to explore, including themes, may not emerge from participants’ interpretations or the research setting.

In the interview, if you adopt a critical realist position, you will believe that there is a truth waiting to be discovered that is external to the interpretations of your participants.

It isn’t possible that themes emerge possibly from discussions with others such as your friends.

Each distinctive format in the interview may not be used to focus on a group of participants’ perceptions or experiences.

New aspects to explore, including themes, may emerge from participants’ interpretations or the research setting.

The order in which you ask each participant questions will not vary depending on the flow of the conversation and the data they share with you in the interview.

In group interviews where two or more participants take part in an interviewer managed discussion.

With a phenomenological interview, you will have very huge control over the interview questioning compared to semistructured interviews.

Structured interviews use questionnaire based on a predetermined and ‘standardized’ or identical set of questions and we refer to them as interviewer administered questionnaires.