View ICR - OIRA Conclusion



1850-0666 201101-1850-004
Historical Active 201004-1850-005
ED/IES 4393
National Postsecondary Student Aid Study
Revision of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved with change 03/22/2011
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 01/24/2011
OMB appreciates that NCES and its contactor are experimenting with innovative ways to address declining survey response rates and, in particular, associated concerns about nonresponse bias. OMB looks forward to seeing the critically important analysis of the field test results prior to being asked to approve the full scale package. In particular, the analysis must include overall results of the incentive experiment, including the cost effectiveness of the tested approaches; a discussion of the effects on bias of any differential response patterns; a review of how well the variables in the model performed, and an assessment of how well new paradata items would have contributed to the model. In addition, the analysis should include a separate discussion of differences in both number of cases that would have switched conditions and the cost difference, if the design had included offering the same incentive to all participants within a single institution, and a report on the number of complaints or queries regarding different incentive levels within an institution. Any response propensity model proposed for the full scale NPSAS data collection must overcome the limitations of the field test model by being based explicitly on analysis of the relationship between model variables and both response propensity and substantive survey variables, rather than response propensity alone.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
03/31/2014 36 Months From Approved 07/31/2013
4,093 0 712
4,256 0 458
0 0 0