With the aim of making data FAIR, this methodological protocol presents the design protocol of a bespoke qualitative questionnaire to be launched online on 1 February 2023. The qualitative questionnaire is a rarely used method despite the fact that it collects excellent data of breadth and depth. In this particular occasion, it is used to understand private tenants’ and landlords’ practices and experiences in Romania but it will be useful to be replicated in other equally under-studied geographies of the post-communist states or elsewhere. This paper presents: (1) some ethical considerations; (2) design considerations; (3) the questionnaire flow; (4) all questions, in English and Romanian, for the three versions, that is for tenants, landlords and tenant-landlords. The paper It opens up the space for other scholars to scrutinise, replicate, or adjust this survey’s bespoke questions to their own work.

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