Jean Piaget (1929) has listed five categories of responses which occurred in interviews with children and these five categories can be extended for classifying interviewee’s responses in other contexts – answers at random, suggested conceptions, liberated conceptions, spontaneous conceptions and romancing (as cited in Wellington, 2000). Analyzing such responses is a tiresome yet important task for any researcher in order to understand how relevant the response is. Every researcher is faced with the dilemma of how much of the collected data is to be utilized and how much of it is to be discarded. Removing unwanted data in case of interviews is problematic, since a considerable amount of time and effort is invested by the interviewer and the
