Many of the women we interviewed encountered significant challenges with breastfeeding, including insufficient milk supply, difficulty getting the baby to latch properly, pain during breastfeeding, or, later, the need to integrate breastfeeding with employment.
The interview situation was not treated as a data mining exercise but rather that meaning was to be created in the interview encounter (Holstein & Gubrium 2002).
This may in part be an effect of the interview encounter itself (Pugh 2013), in which women are likely to present themselves as good mothers who uphold widely held standards.
The interview encounter was therefore the ultimate context within which to ensure production of valid knowledge (the emphasis was not on observation, but rather, conversation and interaction).
The sample size of participants to be included in this study was determined using single mean formula: [N = (Z1 ‐ α) × σ/SE] considering the standard deviation of mean satisfaction level to be 0.5 based on the finding from the pretest done on 41 interview encounters.
As I began trying to find one of the drummers to interview I encountered joy and anticipation among the milling fans drinking beer but also a fair amount of disgruntlement and animosity.
There, in interviews, we encountered the real Irving: sly, sociable, and dangerously sane.
Conducting interviews, she encountered women who were ten or fifteen years her senior, whose lives were more banged up than hers.
On a recent round of New York media interviews, I encountered two almost unanimous views: that the Fed would hike rates later this year, and that Barack Obama would be elected President.
In the 1980's, when I went to Inner Mongolia to conduct interviews, I encountered some Mongolians who were unable to use the common Han language, as well as some who were only able to use common Han and not Mongolian.
