From:	Leach, Nancy
Sent:	Friday, October 17, 2008 9:59 AM
To:	Plimpton, Suzanne H.
Cc:	Fiegener, Mark K; Frase, Mary J.; Carlson, Lynda T
Subject:	Amendment request for SED OMB Clearance

Attachments:	SED C17 OMB change request.doc
Suzanne,
Here is a request for permission to add back the contact email and telephone number to question C17 of the 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) questionnaire.  Does this go in as an amendment?

We are requesting the reinstatement of some contact information (email address and phone number) in question C17 of the 2009 Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED).  This information has been included in previous SED questionnaires but was inadvertently left out of the most recent OMB clearance package.  

Need for this change to questionnaire item C17:

Some of the contact person information for this questionnaire item was inadvertently omitted during the 2007-2009 survey rounds.  Prior to 2007, the e-mail address and phone number of the “person who is likely to know where you can be reached” was included as part of item C17. (go to the following URL to view the questionnaires for the years 2000-2006, each of which includes lines in C17 for e-mail address and phone number:  http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/question.cfm#1). 

We request that the lines for contact e-mail address and phone number be re-inserted into questionnaire item C17 in order to provide additional backup contact information for survey follow-up.  In particular, the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) uses this information to help locate doctorate recipients who are selected as potential respondents to the SDR survey.  

See the attached file for the current and proposed question C17. 

     Nancy
Nancy L. Leach
Director, Human Resources Statistics Program
Science Resources Statistics
National Science Foundation
Tel:  703 292-7768
FAX:  703 292-9092
e-mail:  nleach@nsf.gov
website:  www.nsf.gov/statistics