OMB83C B&B MS Change Sheet

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT CHANGE WORKSHEET
2016-17 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/17) Main Study Change
Request
Agency/Subagency

OMB Control Number

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Agency form number(s)
Annual reporting and record keeping
hour burden
Number of respondent
Total annual responses
Percent of these responses
collected electronically
Total annual hours

1850-0926 v.4

Current Record

New Record

NA

NA

20,829
22,481
100%

20,829
22,481
100%

9,812

9,812
0

Difference
Explanation of difference
Program change

0
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**

This request is for the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) to conduct the 2016/17 Baccalaureate and
Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/17). The B&B studies of the education, work, financial, and personal
experiences of individuals who have completed a bachelor’s degree at a given point in time are a series of
longitudinal studies. Every 8 years, students are identified as bachelor’s degree recipients through the National
Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS). B&B:16/17 is the first follow-up of a panel of baccalaureate degree
recipients identified in the 2015–16 NPSAS, and part of the fourth cohort (B&B:16) of the B&B series. B&B cohorts
prior to B&B:16 were approved under OMB# 1850-0729. The B&B:16 cohort is submitted and reviewed under
OMB# 1850-0926. The primary purposes of the B&B studies are to describe the post-baccalaureate paths of new
college graduates, with a focus on their experiences in the labor market and post-baccalaureate education, and
their education-related debt. B&B also focuses on the continuing education paths of science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates, as well as the experiences of those who have begun careers in
education of students through the 12th grade. Since graduating from college in 2014-15 for the field test, and
2015-16 for the full-scale study, members of this B&B:16 cohort will begin moving into and out of the workforce,
enrolling in additional undergraduate and graduate education, forming families, and repaying undergraduate
education-related debt. Documenting these choices and pathways, along with individual, institutional, and
employment characteristics that may be related to those choices, provides critical information on the costs and
benefits of a bachelor’s degree in today’s workforce. B&B studies include both traditional-age and non-traditionalage college graduates, whose education options and choices often diverge considerably, and allow study of the
paths taken by these different graduates. B&B:16/17 main study data collection is scheduled to take place from
July 2017 through March 2018. This request is to make minor modifications to the B&B:16/17 instrument facsimile
and to data collection materials.
Signature of Senior Official or
designee:

Date:

For OIRA Use

June 1, 2017

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OMB 83-C