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1850-0631 200810-1850-002
Historical Active 200808-1850-006
ED/IES 3859
Beginning Postsecondary Study 2004/09 (BPS:04/09)
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 12/17/2008
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 10/15/2008
OMB appreciates that NCES wants to maintain response rates for the last wave of this longitudinal study and is therefore agreeing to a variety of incentive strategies. However, we wish to clarify that our agreement to allow “production phase” incentives is because of concerns about a “conditioning effect” for this specific group of individuals given that incentives were offered to them during the production phase during the last round of interviewing. We do not find evidence of possible response rate improvements provided in the supporting statement persuasive. More generally, OMB looks forward to a broad discussion with NCES about incentive strategies well before another submission for the BPS or related collections, such as NPSAS and B&B.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
12/31/2010 36 Months From Approved 10/31/2011
14,916 0 2,619
12,829 0 7,857
0 0 0