2022 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2022)

ICR 202102-1850-002

OMB: 1850-0761

Federal Form Document

Forms and Documents
Document
Name
Status
Supplementary Document
2021-05-06
Supplementary Document
2021-02-04
Supporting Statement B
2021-02-04
Supporting Statement A
2021-05-06
IC Document Collections
ICR Details
1850-0761 202102-1850-002
Received in OIRA 202006-1850-004
ED/IES ED-2021-SCC-0019
2022 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2022)
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular 05/19/2021
  Requested Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved 05/31/2022
11,623 7,721
4,907 2,883
0 0

The School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) is a nationally representative survey of elementary and secondary school principals that serves as the primary source of school-level data on crime and safety in public schools, and was conducted in 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2018, and 2020 (OMB# 1850-0761). Four years separated the first two collections of SSOCS to allow for sufficient time to study the results of the first survey and to allow for necessary redesign work; the next three collections were conducted at 2-year intervals. Due to a reorganization of the sponsoring agency (the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools) and funding issues, the 2012 administration of SSOCS, although approved by OMB, was not fielded. With new funding available through the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), SSOCS was conducted again in the spring of the 2015–16 school year. With continued dedicated funding, SSOCS has resumed collection on a biennial basis, with collections during the spring of the 2017–18 and the 2019–20 school years, and the next planned collection during the spring of the 2021–22 school year. SSOCS is a survey of public schools covering the topic of school crime and violence and is designed to produce nationally representative data on public schools. Historically, it has been conducted by mail, with telephone and e-mail follow-up; however, as an experiment, an Internet version was fielded during the SSOCS:2018 administration. For SSOCS:2020, the Internet version was initially offered to all respondents, with the paper version sent via mail as a follow-up, and the same methodology will be used for SSOCS:2022. The respondent is the school principal, or a member of the school staff designated by the principal as the person “the most knowledgeable about school crime and policies to provide a safe environment.” The 2022 survey is being funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Supportive Schools (previously known as the Office of Safe and Healthy Students) and conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), within the U.S. Department of Education. As with prior SSOCS collections, NCES has entered into an interagency agreement with the Census Bureau to administer the 2022 collection. This request is to conduct the 2022 administration of the School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS). As part of SSOCS:2022 development, cognitive testing on new COVID-19 pandemic items will be conducted during the winter and spring of 2021, scheduled to be completed in late-spring 2021. The wording and design of these items may be modified in response to the findings of this testing and, as such, will be updated in a change request, tentatively scheduled for October 2021.

US Code: 20 USC 9573 Name of Law: Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
  
None

Not associated with rulemaking

  86 FR 8895 02/10/2021
86 FR 27074 05/19/2021
Yes

1
IC Title Form No. Form Name
2022 School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS:2022)

  Total Request Previously Approved Change Due to New Statute Change Due to Agency Discretion Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate Change Due to Potential Violation of the PRA
Annual Number of Responses 11,623 7,721 0 3,902 0 0
Annual Time Burden (Hours) 4,907 2,883 0 2,024 0 0
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars) 0 0 0 0 0 0
Yes
Miscellaneous Actions
No
This is the first submission for the SSOCS:2022 data collection cycle. The previous packages for this program annualized burden for two administrations of the study, SSOCS:2018 and SSOCS:2020 increase, which is why there seems to be a large increase in burden between different submissions of this package. Further, the increase in burden from SSOCS:2020 to SSOCS:2022 is due to the addition of COVID-19 pandemic items to the SSOCS questionnaire. The questions are expected to add approximately 4 minutes to the length of average questionnaire completion, therefore increasing the overall burden hours from 4,187 in SSOCS:2020 to 4,907 hours in SSOCS:2022.

$231,856
Yes Part B of Supporting Statement
    Yes
    Yes
No
No
No
No
Carrie Clarady 202 245-6347

  No

On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
    (i) Why the information is being collected;
    (ii) Use of information;
    (iii) Burden estimate;
    (iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
    (v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
    (vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
 
 
 
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
05/19/2021


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