This guide presents a qualitative research methodology for investigating the employment relationship between the domestic worker and employerhousehold - the terms and conditions of this contractual relationship, how these conditions of employment were reached, and workers’ and employers’ views about these conditions: what are the perceived roles, rights and obligations of each party towards the other: what conditions motivate or push workers to engage in domestic work and employers to hire them: and how these dimensions are interconnected. These information reveal opportunities and challenges for improving employment relationships and working conditions in domestic work.