What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Face-to-face Interviews?

The main advantage of face-t-face or direct interviews is that the researcher can adapt the questions as necessary, clarify doubt and ensure that the responses are properly understood, by repeating or rephrasing  the questions. The researcher can also pick up nonverbal cues from the respondent. Any discomfort, stress and problems that the respondent experiences can be detected through frowns, nervous taping and other body language, unconsciously exhibited by any person.

This would be impossible to detect in a telephone interview. So face-to-face helps the interviewee to get the desired results and help them the expression of the person to whom they are interviewing. By reading the facial expression of the respondent the interviewer can easily understand what the respondent want to tell them about any thing.

The main disadvantages of face-to-face interviews are the geographically limitations they may impose on the surveys and the vast resources needed if such surveys need to be done nationally or internationally. The costs of training interviewers to minimize interviewer's biases for example differences in questioning methods, interpretation of response are also high. Another drawback is that respondents might feel uneasy about the anonymity of their responses when they interact face to face interviews.

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ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
The interviewer can explain any points that the person has misunderstood and they can answer any questions and repeat or rephrase them. Have to pay for each interview – much more expensive.
Find out personality or the person, how they dress etc. Respondents may feel uneasy about answering personal questions face to face with an interviewer.

The analyst can probe in greater depth about the person’s work than can be achieved with other models.