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Pilot-tested Semi-structured Interview

A pilot-tested semi-structured interview combines the flexibility of semi-structured interviewing — a guide of open-ended questions allowing conversational depth — with a mandatory pre-study pilot phase in which the guide is trialled on a small subset of participants or informants. The pilot reveals ambiguous questions, poor sequencing, and missing topics before the main data collection begins, substantially strengthening the validity and efficiency of the final instrument.

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Pilot-tested Semi-structured Interview Protocol

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Bryman, A. (2016). Social Research Methods (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780198714965
van Teijlingen, E., & Hundley, V. (2001). The importance of pilot studies. Social Research Update, 35, 1–4. · URL

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