ABSTRACT
This chapter is about good practice in the reporting of interviews. The interview is sensitive to many variables and it is difficult to believe the researchers' story when such sensitive variables have been ignored, or at least not reported. Information about the interviewer gives the reader some indication of the possible expectations and perceptions of the participants. Research reports using interview data should indicate not just the context and structure of the data from each interview, but also a clear statement of the researcher's purpose in conducting the interview in the first place. In fact, reports commonly contain the idiosyncratic choices of the researcher rather than what might be required by the research community at large. Whereas it is common practice to include statistical tests, questionnaires and even observation schedules, it is rare to find either interview schedules or full accounts of the progress of interviews.
