Interviewees from organisations which were not routinely paying many APCs had given less thought to this issue, but they all emphasised the importance of researcher autonomy over where to publish.
The number of interviewees identified per general practice varied widely, and was unrelated to the size of the population from which the interviewees were drawn, or the socioeconomic characteristics of the area in which the practice was located.
For example, we asked respondents "What precautions, if any, have you taken to protect yourself and/or your family against West Nile virus?" The interviewer then read a list of possible responses (e.g., removed areas of standing water, used insect repellent with DEET [N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide]) from which the interviewee indicated yes or no.
The contexts from which interviewer and interviewee approach their subject – the biographical versus the musical, the ordinary elements of life in collision with the urge to analyse and mythologise – reduce their attempts at communication to parallel monologues, out of which emerge first comedy then tragedy.
Most interviewees used the researcher-prepared diagram elements as talking points from which they provided assessments specific to each element, including examples that elucidated how these relationships worked.
You spend hours coming up with great stories; finding clever, exclusive lines; tracking down interviewees – only for your pitches to disappear into a black hole from which no communication, either positive or negative, ever emerges.
Senior managers also respond powerfully to quotes from (unnamed) interviewees, which tend to bring home the employees' deep commitment as well as their frustration.
Study limitations include snowball sampling (referrals from original interviewees), which can restrict sample heterogeneity.
Indeed, in this study, the ITR process resulted in substantive new insights from two interviewees which could potentially influence the data analysis.
Two of the study areas had an overall reputation in social services of being innovative and oriented towards development, which interviewees from these areas mentioned as something positive.
