Control de alcohol. Generalidades

To file interviews researcher must create a file for each interview (i.e. your text transcript), and the notes field in another file. Always in the header or on the first page of a group of interviews we must write down the date the notes were taken, place, who took them, who were present and the number of the total note we

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made to same Interviewee. (I repeat all this for each Interviewee). Also, it is good to put title to each one of the transcriptions, for example: 1st. Interview Mr.

Rodriguez 03-03-12, 2nd. Interview Rodriguez current work 01-05-12. I have to

remember that the titles refer to reminders of situations or actions. They serve to make things easier. This would be a way to archive notes chronologically as they were taken. Other files were built, for example, of thematic form: for instance,

previous experience on teaching (italics are mine), this is not about Mr. Rodriguez

but we isolate the paragraphs according to the topic we are going to analyse. It is extremely important how we build paragraphs and margins because that will help us to assemble the coding. Each new idea must be part of a new paragraph, in our understanding the margins are fundamental to put commentaries of someone at the time of interview. Sometimes those comments are so extensive that we should put some mark and write them on separate sheets. There is no rule about the extension that the field notes or margin notes should have, depending on the situation can be very short as very extensive, I preferred to create my own shorthand and with a small phrase, an abbreviation what I want to say comes to mind. Therefore, as soon as I finished the interviews it was convenient to clean the notes, especially the comments. As I transcribed the notes I was doing a pre-analysis of each interview. Obviously, the first interviews always carry longer notes since it is in that moment when we are refining what we want to observe. It is essential that the researcher review the notes each time an interview ends so he/she can make the comments that he/she considers relevant, and also takes note of aspects that were not clear, or that were not sufficiently developed, or were not addressed. This will allow researcher to understand and plan how to continue his research. Upon leaving the interview, I took a few minutes to write with key words our last observations. Another important form of registration, is the recorder and / or the camcorder. Researcher could make an oral archive of recordings or one of videos and must think how to store them, sometimes I store them only for the duration of the investigation - this was very common especially when tape or cassette recorders were used - and other times I kept them doing a bank of recordings. They must be recorded and transcribed as texts, leaving enough space for comments.

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3.6.1. Storage forms

Researcher have to create files that are easy to identify, I filed in separately the transcripts and the notes, or comments corresponding to each interview. It is important also to have a chronological order of identification of notes and interviews, such it's a good time to make a road map. It's about making decisions on how to store the information so that it could be manageable, since I'm going to gather notes, recordings, videos, photos. To do this I will first have to decide with what types of files I am going to handle information. Plummer (1989) suggests several types of files:

1. Textual and in chronological order, assigning codes for pauses, hesitations, murmurs and confusion. This file, consisting of all interviews is constituted in the main file for constant consultation, it must not be altered under no circumstance. 2. Analytical (changes, cuts, themes) this has undergoing changes as the investigation progresses and therefore the analysis is done in the light of our theoretical readings there is a constant game between interpretations and theory in special of those questions that seem to us more novel. We can constantly change them, that is why the importance of the chronological and textual archive.

3. Personal diary (personal comments) this file is very important, it is related not only to impressions about the Interviewee but also the concerns that arise when investigating.

4. Methodological and theoretical comments, this file is essential since in it I will refer the advances, errors and innovations, especially, from the methodological point of view.

There are certain notes that refer to our reflection, for example, methodological notes, in them I reflect on the strategies I use, the ways in which I save some

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inconvenience either of relationship with the Interviewee or of poor formulation of what I want to investigate this helps us how to correct our performance. Also, taking methodological notes is a way to incorporate experience for future interviews or research, we have, for instance to pay attention to those notes in which when a subject is speaking to us and he/she refers us to another interview, or to some theoretical concept, or to some situation observed on another occasion; all this must be registered with detail. At the beginning it will be a note in the margin that makes us later remember what we want to reflect on these notes that usually are part of our mistakes, our successes, our doubts, our uncertainties, our prejudices, or questions suggested by a particular interview, and guide me about what I should rephrase either in content as in action. These notes must be well identified, for example (ON) observer notes, and must be taken as close to the time the interview ended, is what Glaser (2004) call memos. At the same time that I are taking the notes and re-reading them I are starting the preliminary analysis of our material, this is what will allow us to correct directions. In these notes I reflect on several aspects, on the method, on the conceptual frameworks that I choose, about our attitudes, our perceptions about what I imagine and how that changed. What will always be present are the themes emerging and how they relate to our theory and our hypotheses. Despite in many opportunities methodological notes are not given the space that corresponds, I always emphasise the importance of them. Researcher must be careful and write about the strategies used, the difficulties and the facilitators, not only the successes but also the mistakes, this will allow researcher to take decisions and reflect even on the road to new research.