Structured interview

A person wearing headphones holds a microphone toward another person during an in-person interview at an event.
Interviewer conducting a face-to-face interview with a participant.

A structured interview (also known as a standardized interview or a researcher-administered survey) is a quantitative research method commonly employed in survey research. The aim of this approach is to ensure that each interview is presented with exactly the same questions in the same order. This ensures that answers can be reliably aggregated and that comparisons can be made with confidence between sample sub groups or between different survey periods.