83-C Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT
CHANGE WORKSHEET

2019–20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) End of Data Collection
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

93,024
99,424

131,801

126,531

100%

Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0666 v.32

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

100%
-5270

-5270
0

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

NA

NA

NA
NA

NA
NA
NA

Difference
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 state-representative 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 October
2020 (OMB#1859-0666 v.25-31). The NPSAS:20 enrollment list collection from institutions takes place from October 2019 through
October 2020, the student records collection will take place from March 2020 through February 2021, and the main student survey data
collection takes place from February 2020 through early January 2021.
NPSAS:20 has been affected in numerous ways by the unprecedented worldwide coronavirus pandemic. As a result, response rates for
student-level data collection are lagging behind expectations for this point in the data collection period. As described in this memo, we
would like to target three salient groups with increased contacting and an additional $10 incentive to help increase participation. This
request is to modify our contacting strategy and change the incentive offer for specific nonrespondents – potential first-time beginning
students (FTBs), undergraduate students from private for-profit institutions, and undergraduates who did not file a Free Application for
Federal Student Aid (called FAFSA non-filers), to encourage their participation in NPSAS:20. This request is also for a change to the
student sample size from 150,000 to around 170,000, to help increase the survey yield so that it comes closer to the initial goal of 99,750
respondents. This request does not introduce changes to the costs to the federal government, but the estimated changes to respondent
burden, reflecting the response rates currently being observed, are reported in a revised burden table.
Signature of Senior Official or designee:

Date:

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

November 18, 2020

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