OMB83C v30

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) Calibration Results Update
Change Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Enter only items that change
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping hour
burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

105,214
111,614

105,214
111,614

131,801

131,801

100%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0666 v.30

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

100%
0

0
0

Adjustment
Annual reporting and record keeping cost
burden (in thousands of dollars)
Total annualized capital/startup
costs

NA
NA
NA

Total annual costs (O&M)
Total annualized cost requested
Difference

NA
NA
NA
NA

Explanation of difference

NA
NA

Program change
Adjustment
Other change**

The National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), part of
the U.S. Department of Education, is a cross-sectional study that examines how students and their families pay for education after
high school. The fundamental purpose of NPSAS is to create a research data set that brings together information about a variety of
programs for a large sample of undergraduate and graduate students. NPSAS provides the data for comprehensive descriptions of
the undergraduate and graduate student populations in terms of their demographic characteristics, academic programs, types of
institutions attended, attendance patterns, and employment. NPSAS is conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) and was first implemented during the 1986–87 academic year and has been fielded every 2 to 4 years since. The 11th cycle
in the NPSAS series, NPSAS:20, will be conducted during the 2019–20 academic year and will be both nationally- and staterepresentative of undergraduate and graduate students, and a nationally-representative sample of first-time beginning students
(FTBs). It will further serve as the base year data collection for the 2020 cohort of the Beginning Postsecondary Students
Longitudinal Study (BPS:20), a study of first-time beginning postsecondary students that will be conducted three years (BPS:20/22)
and six years (BPS:20/25) after beginning their postsecondary education. The request to conduct all activities related to NPSAS:20
was approved by OMB including the latest change request in April 2020 (OMB#1859-0666 v.25-29). The NPSAS:20 enrollment list
collection from institutions takes place from October 2019 through July 2020, the student records collection will take place from
March through November 2020, and the student survey data collection will take place from February (upon OMB approval) through
early December 2020.
This request includes an update of the data collection design of the main NPSAS:20 study based on the results of the Calibration
Experiment which investigated the use of prepaid incentives in combination with different baseline promised incentives. This request
does not introduce changes to the estimated respondent burden or the costs to the federal government.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

**This form cannot be used to extend an expiration date
OMB 83-C

May 14, 2020

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