Starting next month, Survey Practice will have an “Ask the Experts” column. Please submit questions related to survey research and public opinion polling methods, processes, or procedures to the editor. I will select an interesting question and ask 2–3 experts to give relatively short answers to the questions.

Some example questions:

• What are good quality control procedures in postal mailing assembly?
• What’s better: a four- or five-point scale? (the question I get most often)
• How are participants tracked in panel studies?
• What’s a good question to measure political ideology?

To submit a comment, click on “comments” below or send an email message to survprac@indiana.edu.