269 transcribed excerpts coded from 22 interviews to self-researchers for the study "Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge". Interviews with participants were conducted via video conferencing and were based on a list of open-ended questions, separated into key sections around participation and collaboration in personal science. Participants who agreed to be interviewed, gave informed consent in like with the ethics approval by the Inserm Institutional Review Board (IRB) for this study, and regarding this data set, previous agreement in compliance with privacy and anonymity requirements. Academic article based on this dataset: Senabre Hidalgo, E., Ball, M. P., Opoix, M., & Greshake Tzovaras, B. (2022). Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science: a community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01199-0