# Interview analysis notes

Use one copy per interview. Keep a separate, unedited master transcript.

## Interview details

- Interview ID:
- Date:
- Research question:
- Participant description (only what is needed):
- Analyst:
- Consent and access notes:
- Transcript/audio location:

## First-read memo

What did this person describe? What surprised you? What needs another look?

## Evidence table

| Source locator | Short source passage | Code | Interpretation or memo | Confidence / question |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | | |
| | | | | |

## Candidate themes or categories

### Candidate theme

- Central idea:
- Supporting codes and passages:
- Contradicting or limiting passages:
- What this theme does not cover:

## Findings or observations

Write each claim narrowly enough that the cited passages support it.

### Finding / observation

- Claim:
- Supporting source locators:
- Conditions or exceptions:
- Analyst interpretation:
- What would need another interview or another source:

## Contradictions and changes

- Earlier statement:
- Later statement:
- Current reading:
- Source locators:

## Follow-up questions

- [ ] 
- [ ] 

## Next action

- What will happen:
- Owner:
- Due date:
- Status: proposed / confirmed / completed

## Review check

- [ ] Names and sensitive details are removed or protected as required.
- [ ] Every finding can be traced to a source passage.
- [ ] Participant words and analyst interpretation are visibly separate.
- [ ] Corrections, exceptions, and uncertainty remain in the note.
- [ ] A single interview is described as one account, not a population-wide pattern.
- [ ] Another person reviewed sensitive decisions, names, or commitments.

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