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ACTION:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection
requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 on the Survey of
Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in
Science and Engineering. NSF may not
conduct or sponsor a collection of
information unless the collection of
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respond to the collection of information
that such persons are not required to
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(a) Whether the collection of
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of burden including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on those who are to respond, including
through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
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of having their full effect if received
October 19, 2017.
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Desk Officer for National Science
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10235, Washington, DC 20503, and to
Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance
Officer, National Science Foundation,
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Arlington, Virginia 22230 or send email
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hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year (including federal holidays).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne H. Plimpton at splimpto@
nsf.gov. Copies of the submission may
be obtained by calling 703–292–7556.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is the
second notice for public comment on
plans to obtain OMB clearance for the
Survey of Graduate Students and
Postdoctorates in Science and
Engineering; the first notice was
published in the Federal Register at 82
FR 20921, and no comments were
received. NSF is forwarding the
proposed renewal submission to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for clearance simultaneously
with the publication of this second
notice. The full submission may be
found at: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/
do/PRAMain.
Title: Survey of Graduate Students
and Postdoctorates in Science and
Engineering
OMB Approval Number: 3145–0062.
Summary of Collection: Established
within the NSF by the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010
§ 505, codified in the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended,
the National Center for Science and
Engineering Statistics (NCSES) serves as
a central Federal clearinghouse for the
collection, interpretation, analysis, and
dissemination of objective data on
science, engineering, technology, and
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research and development for use by
practitioners, researchers, policymakers,
and the public.
The Survey of Graduate Students and
Postdoctorates in Science and
Engineering (GSS), sponsored by NCSES
within NSF and the National Institutes
of Health, is designed to comply with
legislative mandates by providing
information on the characteristics of
graduate students and postdoctorates
appointees (postdocs) in science,
engineering and health (SEH) fields. The
GSS, which originated in 1966 and has
been conducted annually since 1972, is
a census of all departments in SEH
fields within academic institutions with
graduate programs in the United States.
The GSS is the only national survey
that collects information on the
characteristics of graduate enrollment
for specific SEH disciplines at the
department level. It collects information
on ethnicity and race, citizenship, sex,
sources of support, mechanisms of
support, and enrollment status for
graduate students; information on
postdocs by ethnicity and race,
citizenship, sex, sources of support,
mechanism of support, doctorate type
and degree origin; and information on
other doctorate-holding non-faculty
researchers by gender and doctorate
type. To improve coverage of postdocs,
the GSS also periodically collects
information on the ethnicity and race,
sex, citizenship, source of support, field
of research for the postdocs employed in
Federally Funded Research and
Development Centers (FFRDCs). The
data are solicited under the authority of
the National Science Foundation Act of
1950, as amended, and the Privacy Act
of 1974. All information will be used for
statistical purposes only. Participation
in the survey is voluntary.
Starting in 2017, the GSS will be
redesigned to improve the data utility,
data reporting, and to reduce response
burden. The redesign changes to be
implemented include: (1) Separate
reporting of enrollment and financial
support data for master’s and doctoral
students; (2) reporting of data based on
the Classification of Instructional
Programs (CIP) codes for the
departments; and (3) expanding the
institutional use of file transfers for data
submission, instead of manual entry of
data in the GSS Web survey instrument.
The redesigned data collection will not
ask new questions but the primary
method used to report the graduate
student enrollment and financial
support data will change for the
institutions.
The initial GSS data request will be
sent to the designated respondent
(School Coordinator) at each academic
institution in the fall. The School
Coordinator may upload a file with
requested data on the GSS Web site,
which will automatically aggregate the
data and populate the cells of the Web
survey instrument for each eligible unit
(departments, programs, research
centers and health care facilities).
The School Coordinator will be also
able to upload partial data (e.g., student
enrollment information) and delegate
the provision of other data (e.g.,
financial support information) to
appropriate unit respondents at their
institution. The GSS institutions which
do not want to upload data files will be
able to complete the survey through
manual entry of data in the Web survey
instrument as in the past.
Use of the Information: The GSS data
are routinely provided to Congress and
other Federal agencies. The GSS
institutions are major users of the GSS
data, along with professional societies
such as the American Association of
Universities, Association of American
Medical Colleges, and the Carnegie
Foundation. Graduate enrollment and
postdoc data are often used in reports by
the national media. The GSS (along with
other academic sector surveys from both
NCSES and the National Center of
Education Statistics) is one of the inputs
into the NCSES data system, which
provides access to science and
engineering (S&E) statistical data from
U.S. academic institutions. Among other
uses, this online data system is used by
NSF to review changing enrollment
levels to assess the effects of NSF
initiatives, to track graduate student
support patterns and to analyze
participation in S&E fields by targeted
groups for all disciplines or for selected
disciplines and for selected groups of
institutions.
NSF will publish statistics from the
survey in several reports, including the
National Science Board’s Science and
Engineering Indicators and NCSES’
Women, Minorities and Persons with
Disabilities in Science and Engineering.
These reports will be made available
electronically on the NSF Web site. A
public use file is also made available.
Expected Respondents: The GSS is a
census of all eligible academic
institutions in the U.S. with graduate
programs in SEH fields. The estimated
total number of respondents surveyed in
2017 survey is 15,972 departments or
programs in about 826 schools within
700 SEH graduate degree-granting
institutions. The response rate is
calculated on the number of
departments that respond to the survey.
NCSES expects the response rate to
remain around 99 percent.
Estimate of Burden: The amount of
time it takes to complete the GSS data
varies dramatically across institutions,
and depends to a large degree on the
number of reporting units, and the
extent to which the school’s records are
centrally stored and computerized. It
also depends on the number of
institutions using the manual data entry
or the file upload option to provide the
GSS data. Based on the Pilot data
collection conducted during the 2016
GSS that was designed to test the
feasibility of the GSS redesign, a large
majority of the institutions are expected
to use the file upload options to submit
data.
Burden estimate calculations are
based on the survey completion times
reported by the 2016 Pilot GSS
respondents, as compared to their
completion times reported in the 2015
GSS. Because completion time differs by
reporting institution type, burden is
estimated separately based on three
types of institutions and the proportion
they constitute in the GSS frame—
institutions enrolling only master’s
students, institutions enrolling both
master’s and doctoral students with 15
or fewer reporting units, and
institutions enrolling both master’s and
doctoral students with more than 15
reporting units (see Table 1).
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TABLE 1—EXPECTED COMPOSITION OF 2017 GSS FRAME
Number of
schools
Institution type
Percent
Master’s Only ...........................................................................................................................................................
Master’s/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units .....................................................................................................................
Master’s/Doctorate: More than 15 units ..................................................................................................................
339
205
282
41.0
24.8
34.2
Total ..................................................................................................................................................................
826
100.0
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Burden estimates for each reporting
institution type are shown in Table 2.
TABLE 2—BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR THE 2017 GSS
Respondents
(number of
schools)
School type
Average
burden
(hours)
Total burden
(hours)
Master’s Only ...............................................................................................................................
Master’s/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units .........................................................................................
Master’s/Doctorate: More than 15 units ......................................................................................
FFRDCs .......................................................................................................................................
339
205
282
43
5.9
17.1
86.6
3.7
2,000
3,506
24,421
159
Estimated total ......................................................................................................................
869
........................
30,086
The number of units in the
subsequent survey cycle will include
the institutions in the previous year
plus an approximate 1 percent increase
in institutions. The FFRDC postdoc data
collection will take place in 2017 and
2019, and the estimated burden for
those years will increase by 159 hours
from 43 FFRDCs (based on 100 percent
response rate in 2015 with the average
burden of 3.7 hours per FFRDC) to a
total of 30,086 and 30,738 hours,
respectively (see Table 3). Estimates of
the 2018 GSS burden are 30,262 hours.
An additional 800 hours across three
years are requested to conduct
methodological testing.
TABLE 3—TOTAL BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR 2017–19 GSS
Survey cycle
Respondents
(number of
schools)
2017 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................
GSS Institutions ................................................................................................................................................
FFRDCs ............................................................................................................................................................
2018 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................
2019 GSS ................................................................................................................................................................
GSS Institutions ................................................................................................................................................
FFRDCs ............................................................................................................................................................
Future methodological testing (across all 3 years) .................................................................................................
869
826
43
836
888
845
43
........................
30,086
29,927
159
30,262
30,738
30,579
159
800
Total estimated burden .....................................................................................................................................
Estimated average annual burden ..........................................................................................................................
2,593
864
91,886
30,629
The total estimated respondent
burden of the GSS, including 800 hours
for the methodological studies, will be
91,886 hours over the 3-survey
clearance period.
Dated: September 14, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Submission for OMB review; comment request.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) has submitted the
following information collection requirement to OMB for review and
clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 on the Survey of
Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. NSF
may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless the
collection of information displays a currently valid OMB control number
and the agency informs potential persons who are to respond to the
collection of information that such persons are not required to respond
to the collection of information unless it displays a currently valid
OMB control number.
Comments: Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
DATES: Comments regarding these information collections are best
assured of having their full effect if received October 19, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to: Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for National Science
Foundation, 725 17th Street NW., Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, and
to Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1265, Arlington, Virginia
22230 or send email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339, which is accessible
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (including federal
holidays).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzanne H. Plimpton at
splimpto@nsf.gov. Copies of the submission may be obtained by calling
703-292-7556.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is the second notice for public comment
on plans to obtain OMB clearance for the Survey of Graduate Students
and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering; the first notice was
published in the Federal Register at 82 FR 20921, and no comments were
received. NSF is forwarding the proposed renewal submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance simultaneously with
the publication of this second notice. The full submission may be found
at: https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Title: Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science
and Engineering
OMB Approval Number: 3145-0062.
Summary of Collection: Established within the NSF by the America
COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 Sec. 505, codified in the
National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended, the National
Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) serves as a
central Federal clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation,
analysis, and dissemination of objective data on science, engineering,
technology, and
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research and development for use by practitioners, researchers,
policymakers, and the public.
The Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and
Engineering (GSS), sponsored by NCSES within NSF and the National
Institutes of Health, is designed to comply with legislative mandates
by providing information on the characteristics of graduate students
and postdoctorates appointees (postdocs) in science, engineering and
health (SEH) fields. The GSS, which originated in 1966 and has been
conducted annually since 1972, is a census of all departments in SEH
fields within academic institutions with graduate programs in the
United States.
The GSS is the only national survey that collects information on
the characteristics of graduate enrollment for specific SEH disciplines
at the department level. It collects information on ethnicity and race,
citizenship, sex, sources of support, mechanisms of support, and
enrollment status for graduate students; information on postdocs by
ethnicity and race, citizenship, sex, sources of support, mechanism of
support, doctorate type and degree origin; and information on other
doctorate-holding non-faculty researchers by gender and doctorate type.
To improve coverage of postdocs, the GSS also periodically collects
information on the ethnicity and race, sex, citizenship, source of
support, field of research for the postdocs employed in Federally
Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs). The data are
solicited under the authority of the National Science Foundation Act of
1950, as amended, and the Privacy Act of 1974. All information will be
used for statistical purposes only. Participation in the survey is
voluntary.
Starting in 2017, the GSS will be redesigned to improve the data
utility, data reporting, and to reduce response burden. The redesign
changes to be implemented include: (1) Separate reporting of enrollment
and financial support data for master's and doctoral students; (2)
reporting of data based on the Classification of Instructional Programs
(CIP) codes for the departments; and (3) expanding the institutional
use of file transfers for data submission, instead of manual entry of
data in the GSS Web survey instrument. The redesigned data collection
will not ask new questions but the primary method used to report the
graduate student enrollment and financial support data will change for
the institutions.
The initial GSS data request will be sent to the designated
respondent (School Coordinator) at each academic institution in the
fall. The School Coordinator may upload a file with requested data on
the GSS Web site, which will automatically aggregate the data and
populate the cells of the Web survey instrument for each eligible unit
(departments, programs, research centers and health care facilities).
The School Coordinator will be also able to upload partial data
(e.g., student enrollment information) and delegate the provision of
other data (e.g., financial support information) to appropriate unit
respondents at their institution. The GSS institutions which do not
want to upload data files will be able to complete the survey through
manual entry of data in the Web survey instrument as in the past.
Use of the Information: The GSS data are routinely provided to
Congress and other Federal agencies. The GSS institutions are major
users of the GSS data, along with professional societies such as the
American Association of Universities, Association of American Medical
Colleges, and the Carnegie Foundation. Graduate enrollment and postdoc
data are often used in reports by the national media. The GSS (along
with other academic sector surveys from both NCSES and the National
Center of Education Statistics) is one of the inputs into the NCSES
data system, which provides access to science and engineering (S&E)
statistical data from U.S. academic institutions. Among other uses,
this online data system is used by NSF to review changing enrollment
levels to assess the effects of NSF initiatives, to track graduate
student support patterns and to analyze participation in S&E fields by
targeted groups for all disciplines or for selected disciplines and for
selected groups of institutions.
NSF will publish statistics from the survey in several reports,
including the National Science Board's Science and Engineering
Indicators and NCSES' Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities
in Science and Engineering. These reports will be made available
electronically on the NSF Web site. A public use file is also made
available.
Expected Respondents: The GSS is a census of all eligible academic
institutions in the U.S. with graduate programs in SEH fields. The
estimated total number of respondents surveyed in 2017 survey is 15,972
departments or programs in about 826 schools within 700 SEH graduate
degree-granting institutions. The response rate is calculated on the
number of departments that respond to the survey. NCSES expects the
response rate to remain around 99 percent.
Estimate of Burden: The amount of time it takes to complete the GSS
data varies dramatically across institutions, and depends to a large
degree on the number of reporting units, and the extent to which the
school's records are centrally stored and computerized. It also depends
on the number of institutions using the manual data entry or the file
upload option to provide the GSS data. Based on the Pilot data
collection conducted during the 2016 GSS that was designed to test the
feasibility of the GSS redesign, a large majority of the institutions
are expected to use the file upload options to submit data.
Burden estimate calculations are based on the survey completion
times reported by the 2016 Pilot GSS respondents, as compared to their
completion times reported in the 2015 GSS. Because completion time
differs by reporting institution type, burden is estimated separately
based on three types of institutions and the proportion they constitute
in the GSS frame--institutions enrolling only master's students,
institutions enrolling both master's and doctoral students with 15 or
fewer reporting units, and institutions enrolling both master's and
doctoral students with more than 15 reporting units (see Table 1).
Table 1--Expected Composition of 2017 GSS Frame
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Number of
Institution type schools Percent
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master's Only........................... 339 41.0
Master's/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units... 205 24.8
Master's/Doctorate: More than 15 units.. 282 34.2
-------------------------------
Total............................... 826 100.0
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Burden estimates for each reporting institution type are shown in
Table 2.
Table 2--Burden Estimates for the 2017 GSS
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Respondents
School type (number of Average burden Total burden
schools) (hours) (hours)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Master's Only................................................... 339 5.9 2,000
Master's/Doctorate: 15 or fewer units........................... 205 17.1 3,506
Master's/Doctorate: More than 15 units.......................... 282 86.6 24,421
FFRDCs.......................................................... 43 3.7 159
-----------------------------------------------
Estimated total............................................. 869 .............. 30,086
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The number of units in the subsequent survey cycle will include the
institutions in the previous year plus an approximate 1 percent
increase in institutions. The FFRDC postdoc data collection will take
place in 2017 and 2019, and the estimated burden for those years will
increase by 159 hours from 43 FFRDCs (based on 100 percent response
rate in 2015 with the average burden of 3.7 hours per FFRDC) to a total
of 30,086 and 30,738 hours, respectively (see Table 3). Estimates of
the 2018 GSS burden are 30,262 hours. An additional 800 hours across
three years are requested to conduct methodological testing.
Table 3--Total Burden Estimates for 2017-19 GSS
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Respondents
Survey cycle (number of Total burden
schools) (hours)
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2017 GSS................................ 869 30,086
GSS Institutions.................... 826 29,927
FFRDCs.............................. 43 159
2018 GSS................................ 836 30,262
2019 GSS................................ 888 30,738
GSS Institutions.................... 845 30,579
FFRDCs.............................. 43 159
Future methodological testing (across .............. 800
all 3 years)...........................
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Total estimated burden.............. 2,593 91,886
Estimated average annual burden......... 864 30,629
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The total estimated respondent burden of the GSS, including 800
hours for the methodological studies, will be 91,886 hours over the 3-
survey clearance period.
Dated: September 14, 2017.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2017-19889 Filed 9-18-17; 8:45 am]
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