Analysing findings from semi-structured interviews
How do we Evaluate Programmes?
used in the PPA approach to analyze the results of semi-structured dialogue
The analysis of responses from unstructured or semi-structured interviews can be more difficult than analysing responses to fixed questionnaire, since there will be a wide variety of answers, different people will raise different points and some of the answers might be long. One way to analyse the responses is to summarise each interview into the main points that were raised. It may then be possible to create a limited number of categories of response which will help to see how many people agree or disagree with different views. It is also useful to report any particularly interesting views word for word.