Question

In your own words and in two complete paragraphs what are the differences between these two research approaches - interview and a self-administered survey? Are there advantages to using one approach to another.​

Answer 1

Answer: Interview is process where question and answer conversation is done. The person asking a question is known as an interviewer. Interview is generally conducted to fill up the job vacancy, to analyze data of particular population etc. whereas self- administered survey is a collection of data consist of many questions. In this survey no interviewer is involved as well as there is no need of any appointment.

There are many advantages as in the interview, there will be a particular sum of the question that would be set by the interviewer but in the self-administered survey we can build up many questions and collect the data. The self-administered survey is low cost-per-completion that makes it an economical method of surveying large samples.