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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Request for Comment
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
ACTION: Request for comments.
AGENCY:
The Department of Labor
through the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) is currently soliciting comments
concerning the planning, development,
and implementation of a new National
Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)
cohort.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted by the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before May 6, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments by one of the following
methods:
On-line: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments.
Email: nlsy26info@bls.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Safia Abdirizak, Economist, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, abdirizak.safia@bls.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
I. Background
BLS is currently developing plans for
a new NLSY cohort. The BLS provided
Congress with a 5-year development
plan, which would culminate in fielding
a first round of collection in 2026. This
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development plan is available in section
IV below and at https://www.bls.gov/
nls/nlsy26.htm. As part of this process,
BLS is committed to engaging with new
and experienced users of NLSY data to
maximize the eventual utility of the new
NLSY cohort. This request for
information is one avenue of this
engagement plan. The development of a
new NLSY cohort will build upon BLS
experience and analysis of its two
ongoing NLSY cohorts.
1. National Longitudinal Survey of
Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
The NLSY79 sample is composed of
12,686 young men and women who
were born in the years 1957 to 1964.
Data were first collected in 1979, when
sample members were ages 14–22. In
December 2021, BLS completed round
29 of data collection with NLSY79
sample members who were ages 55 to
63. BLS has followed this cohort of late
Baby Boomers for over 40 years,
recording their lives from their teens
into their 50s and early 60s.
2. National Longitudinal Survey of
Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
The NLSY97 began over 20 years ago
with the collection of data from a
sample of 8,984 youths who were born
in the years 1980 to 1984. The sample
members were ages 12–16 as of
December 31, 1996. In Fall 2021, BLS
began round 20 of data collection for
this cohort with sample members ages
36 to 41.
More information about the ongoing
NLSY cohorts is available at https://
www.bls.gov/nls/.
The longitudinal approach of the
NLSY cohorts provides data to
economists, sociologists, and other
researchers in government, academia,
and private organizations to answer
such questions as how wages change
over time, how schooling and training
contribute to the development and
maintenance of skills to obtain and keep
good jobs over one’s career, how
individuals navigate work and family
responsibilities, and how individuals
plan for retirement as their careers come
to an end. To continue building on these
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longstanding strengths of the NLSY
cohorts, BLS envisions that a new youth
cohort would cover a broad range of
topics related to labor market outcomes
for a new generation entering the labor
force.
Respondents in previous NLSY
cohorts have been asked a core set of
questions that provide extensive
information on employment, training,
education, income, assets, marital
status, fertility, health, attitudes toward
work, experiences with the criminal
justice system, household composition,
and occupational and geographical
mobility. In addition, the previous
cohorts were administered cognitive
assessments. BLS anticipates that the
new youth cohort will cover these same
topics and include assessments of
cognitive and non-cognitive skills, thus
enabling the study of educational
experiences, achievement, cognitive and
non-cognitive skills, and the transition
from school to work; training programs
and training in the workplace; the value
of early-career job exploration;
geographic mobility; relationships
between the workplace and the wellbeing of the family and family
transitions; drug and alcohol use;
juvenile delinquency and criminal
behavior; fertility and childbearing; and
employment and earnings of workers.
As with past NLSY cohorts, a new
cohort would collect detailed
information about each job held,
including start and stop dates for each
job and characteristics of each job such
as wages, hours, occupation, and
industry. Information about periods
when no jobs are held would also be
collected. Detailed information would
be collected on education and training,
and events such as marriage and
divorce, as well as fertility, all of which
affect labor market choices.
More information about the NLSY26
cohort and current BLS plans is
available at https://www.bls.gov/nls/
nlsy26.htm.
II. Current and Planned Engagement
In October 2020, the National Science
Foundation funded a ‘‘Shaping a New
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth’’
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conference, which brought together
academics from many disciplines,
leaders from federal agencies, and
independent researchers to share
information about previous
achievements of the NLSY cohorts,
identify emerging and ongoing needs for
studying upcoming workforce
generations, and discuss how a new
cohort could meet those needs. The
conference served as a building block
for additional stakeholder and user
outreach for planning the NLSY26
cohort.
In addition, BLS has begun extensive
consultation with stakeholders in
government, academia, research and
policy organizations, users of NLS
products, and relevant advisory
committees. BLS has consulted with
members of its NLS Technical Review
Committee and conducted outreach
meetings with several government
agencies including the Department of
Justice, National Institute for Child
Health and Human Development,
Department of Health and Human
Services, and the National Center for
Educational Statistics.
BLS is currently planning for several
additional outreach activities. First, BLS
plans to engage with stakeholder
organizations, such as the Council of
Professional Associations on Federal
Statistics (COPAFS), the Association of
Public Data Users (APDU), the
American Association for Public
Opinion Research (AAPOR), the
American Statistical Association (ASA),
the American Economic Association
(AEA), Population Association of
America (PAA), and others, to inform
them of BLS’s current plans. This
engagement will also be used to
encourage their members to submit
feedback to this Federal Register Notice
and other future planned activities. In
addition, BLS is planning to issue a user
survey, host focus groups on various
topics, and make available
informational materials to enable
feedback and insight from the
stakeholder community’s broad range of
knowledge and interest. Each part of the
current plan is described further below.
Informational Materials. NLSY
informational materials will contain
items to support organizations or
individuals interested in learning more
about the current NLSY cohorts and
upcoming plans for the NLSY26 cohort.
The materials will include sample email
templates that entities can use to
encourage their constituents to submit
input, as well as presentations and fact
sheets on a variety of content areas to
support a discussion that would yield
feedback. Users can submit feedback
through the user survey and/or this
Federal Register Notice.
User Survey. This survey will be
designed to gain information from a
wide range of stakeholders and data
users while imposing a low burden on
respondents. The proposed survey will
ask about users’ satisfaction with past
questionnaire content and data access,
as well as their priorities for a new
youth cohort to inform BLS of
anticipated research needs in the future.
The user survey is available at the link
below: https://www.bls.gov/nls/
nlsy26.htm.
Focus Groups. A series of focus
groups will be conducted to gather more
detailed input and provide greater
community engagement. These focus
groups will include introductory
information about NLSY cohorts to be
accessible to a wide audience. The BLS
will tailor the discussions towards
survey features that are relevant to the
associated user communities. These
focus groups will seek feedback from
both targeted stakeholders and user
groups. BLS will conduct a series of six
virtual sessions regarding: (1) Childhood
and Family Retrospective; (2) Physical
Health, Environment, and Climate; (3)
Mental Health; (4) Employment, Jobs,
and the Future of Work; (5) Innovations
in International Surveys; and (6) Think
tanks/Research organizations/Nonprofits. Each session will involve 7 to 9
participants, representing a range of
stakeholders and users with expertise in
the session topic areas. These sessions
may cover survey content and survey
objectives, as well as usability and
accessibility of data files for a new
youth cohort.
III. Additional Information-Gathering
Activities
In tandem with the user engagement
activities described above, the BLS is
conducting several activities to gather
information that is relevant to its
development of a new NLSY cohort.
BLS has funded four content panels to
provide opportunities for experts in
different subject areas to make sure that
emerging ideas, best practices, and
relevant examples are brought forward
for consideration for an NLSY26. Four
panels are scheduled in FY2022
regarding: (1) Family and Early
Childhood Retrospectives; (2) K–12
Education and Cognition; (3) Health and
Environment; and (4) Department of
Defense Initiatives and Assessments.
Each panel is expected to have 4–7
members who will meet several times
over the course of 3–5 months before
determining their recommendations.
BLS has also funded a retrospective
analysis of data from the NLSY79 and
NLSY97 cohorts. This analysis will
document past usage of different topics
and variables, examine the publications
that resulted from this usage, and
compare the NLSY cohorts to other
major longitudinal surveys and other
BLS household surveys to identify areas
of overlap.
Finally, BLS has funded a study to
evaluate alternative (non-survey) data
sources that may potentially be
incorporated in the new NLSY cohort to
improve accuracy, increase granularity,
provide information on new topics, and/
or reduce respondent burden. This
study will include a broad scan to
identify potentially useful sources,
analyses to develop potential use cases,
and information-gathering to allow
assessment of the feasibility and value
of each use case.
IV. NLSY26 Development Plan
As submitted to Congress, the
following 5-year development plan
would yield implementation of a new
NLSY cohort in Fiscal Year 2026.
FY
Major tasks
2020 .......
2021 .......
Planning.
Stakeholder outreach, including conferences and web seminars; and continue planning, including content panels, assessments of
sample frames, dissemination needs, and vendor capabilities.
Continue content panels and other design activities (including sampling, survey, materials, dissemination).
Complete content panels, continue design, and begin survey development (sampling, survey, questionnaire, materials, dissemination, and systems work).
Continue survey and systems development and begin pretesting preparations.
Pretest fielding, revisions to systems and the survey resulting from the pretest, and preparation for round 1 screening and data collection to occur in 2026.
2022 .......
2023 .......
2024 .......
2025 .......
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V. Desired Focus of Comments
As BLS pursues the current and
planned engagement and informationgathering activities described above to
support development of a new NLSY
cohort, BLS is also interested in hearing
directly from the public in response to
this FRN. BLS is particularly interested
in comments and recommendations on
the following aspects of the new NLSY
cohort:
• Questionnaire content
• Survey methodology
• Sampling
• Data dissemination
The BLS welcomes comments on any
aspect of the above areas and is
especially interested in comments on:
• Research questions that a new
cohort of the National Longitudinal
Surveys program would address at
different points in the life course.
• The distinctive role of NLSY
cohorts among the range of survey and
non-survey data sources.
• Factors that inform researchers’
choice of data sources.
• Modifications in the coverage of
specific topics compared to previous
NLSY cohorts. This could include any
gaps in the current data, ‘must keep’
elements in the current data, or
elements that are less valuable.
• Uses of data from a new NLSY
cohort that BLS should anticipate and
prioritize (e.g., training of young
researchers, benchmarking specialized
samples, policy analysis, cross-cohort
comparisons, basic research on human
behavior, etc.).
• Design and implementation features
of a new NLSY cohort that users will
find most valuable (e.g., accessible
public use files, frequency of data
collection, availability of biometric
measures, oversamples of specific
populations, linkage possibilities to
selected administrative data, ease of use
of data, alignment with other surveys,
etc.).
• New social and economic trends
that are important to consider in
designing a new NLSY cohort.
• Any other issues BLS should
consider in developing a new NLSY
cohort.
In addition, BLS is open to hearing
from the public about how to improve
its current stakeholder engagement
plans to promote equitable and
diversified feedback as a new NLSY
cohort is developed.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
made available at https://www.bls.gov/
nls/nlsy26.htm.
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Signed at Washington, DC, on March 1,
2022.
Eric Molina,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems.
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ACTION: Notice of availability of funds
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www.grants.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the funding
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directed to OSHA via telephone at 847–
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available to answer questions after 5:00
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on the Susan Harwood Training Grant
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is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Request for Comment
AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
ACTION: Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor through the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) is currently soliciting comments concerning the planning,
development, and implementation of a new National Longitudinal Survey
of Youth (NLSY) cohort.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted by the methods listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or before May 6, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written comments by one of the following
methods:
On-line: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments.
Email: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Safia Abdirizak, Economist, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
BLS is currently developing plans for a new NLSY cohort. The BLS
provided Congress with a 5-year development plan, which would culminate
in fielding a first round of collection in 2026. This development plan
is available in section IV below and at https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy26.htm. As part of this process, BLS is committed to engaging with
new and experienced users of NLSY data to maximize the eventual utility
of the new NLSY cohort. This request for information is one avenue of
this engagement plan. The development of a new NLSY cohort will build
upon BLS experience and analysis of its two ongoing NLSY cohorts.
1. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)
The NLSY79 sample is composed of 12,686 young men and women who
were born in the years 1957 to 1964. Data were first collected in 1979,
when sample members were ages 14-22. In December 2021, BLS completed
round 29 of data collection with NLSY79 sample members who were ages 55
to 63. BLS has followed this cohort of late Baby Boomers for over 40
years, recording their lives from their teens into their 50s and early
60s.
2. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)
The NLSY97 began over 20 years ago with the collection of data from
a sample of 8,984 youths who were born in the years 1980 to 1984. The
sample members were ages 12-16 as of December 31, 1996. In Fall 2021,
BLS began round 20 of data collection for this cohort with sample
members ages 36 to 41.
More information about the ongoing NLSY cohorts is available at
https://www.bls.gov/nls/.
The longitudinal approach of the NLSY cohorts provides data to
economists, sociologists, and other researchers in government,
academia, and private organizations to answer such questions as how
wages change over time, how schooling and training contribute to the
development and maintenance of skills to obtain and keep good jobs over
one's career, how individuals navigate work and family
responsibilities, and how individuals plan for retirement as their
careers come to an end. To continue building on these longstanding
strengths of the NLSY cohorts, BLS envisions that a new youth cohort
would cover a broad range of topics related to labor market outcomes
for a new generation entering the labor force.
Respondents in previous NLSY cohorts have been asked a core set of
questions that provide extensive information on employment, training,
education, income, assets, marital status, fertility, health, attitudes
toward work, experiences with the criminal justice system, household
composition, and occupational and geographical mobility. In addition,
the previous cohorts were administered cognitive assessments. BLS
anticipates that the new youth cohort will cover these same topics and
include assessments of cognitive and non-cognitive skills, thus
enabling the study of educational experiences, achievement, cognitive
and non-cognitive skills, and the transition from school to work;
training programs and training in the workplace; the value of early-
career job exploration; geographic mobility; relationships between the
workplace and the well-being of the family and family transitions; drug
and alcohol use; juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior; fertility
and childbearing; and employment and earnings of workers.
As with past NLSY cohorts, a new cohort would collect detailed
information about each job held, including start and stop dates for
each job and characteristics of each job such as wages, hours,
occupation, and industry. Information about periods when no jobs are
held would also be collected. Detailed information would be collected
on education and training, and events such as marriage and divorce, as
well as fertility, all of which affect labor market choices.
More information about the NLSY26 cohort and current BLS plans is
available at https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy26.htm.
II. Current and Planned Engagement
In October 2020, the National Science Foundation funded a ``Shaping
a New National Longitudinal Survey of Youth''
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conference, which brought together academics from many disciplines,
leaders from federal agencies, and independent researchers to share
information about previous achievements of the NLSY cohorts, identify
emerging and ongoing needs for studying upcoming workforce generations,
and discuss how a new cohort could meet those needs. The conference
served as a building block for additional stakeholder and user outreach
for planning the NLSY26 cohort.
In addition, BLS has begun extensive consultation with stakeholders
in government, academia, research and policy organizations, users of
NLS products, and relevant advisory committees. BLS has consulted with
members of its NLS Technical Review Committee and conducted outreach
meetings with several government agencies including the Department of
Justice, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development,
Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Center for
Educational Statistics.
BLS is currently planning for several additional outreach
activities. First, BLS plans to engage with stakeholder organizations,
such as the Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
(COPAFS), the Association of Public Data Users (APDU), the American
Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the American
Statistical Association (ASA), the American Economic Association (AEA),
Population Association of America (PAA), and others, to inform them of
BLS's current plans. This engagement will also be used to encourage
their members to submit feedback to this Federal Register Notice and
other future planned activities. In addition, BLS is planning to issue
a user survey, host focus groups on various topics, and make available
informational materials to enable feedback and insight from the
stakeholder community's broad range of knowledge and interest. Each
part of the current plan is described further below.
Informational Materials. NLSY informational materials will contain
items to support organizations or individuals interested in learning
more about the current NLSY cohorts and upcoming plans for the NLSY26
cohort. The materials will include sample email templates that entities
can use to encourage their constituents to submit input, as well as
presentations and fact sheets on a variety of content areas to support
a discussion that would yield feedback. Users can submit feedback
through the user survey and/or this Federal Register Notice.
User Survey. This survey will be designed to gain information from
a wide range of stakeholders and data users while imposing a low burden
on respondents. The proposed survey will ask about users' satisfaction
with past questionnaire content and data access, as well as their
priorities for a new youth cohort to inform BLS of anticipated research
needs in the future. The user survey is available at the link below:
https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy26.htm.
Focus Groups. A series of focus groups will be conducted to gather
more detailed input and provide greater community engagement. These
focus groups will include introductory information about NLSY cohorts
to be accessible to a wide audience. The BLS will tailor the
discussions towards survey features that are relevant to the associated
user communities. These focus groups will seek feedback from both
targeted stakeholders and user groups. BLS will conduct a series of six
virtual sessions regarding: (1) Childhood and Family Retrospective; (2)
Physical Health, Environment, and Climate; (3) Mental Health; (4)
Employment, Jobs, and the Future of Work; (5) Innovations in
International Surveys; and (6) Think tanks/Research organizations/Non-
profits. Each session will involve 7 to 9 participants, representing a
range of stakeholders and users with expertise in the session topic
areas. These sessions may cover survey content and survey objectives,
as well as usability and accessibility of data files for a new youth
cohort.
III. Additional Information-Gathering Activities
In tandem with the user engagement activities described above, the
BLS is conducting several activities to gather information that is
relevant to its development of a new NLSY cohort. BLS has funded four
content panels to provide opportunities for experts in different
subject areas to make sure that emerging ideas, best practices, and
relevant examples are brought forward for consideration for an NLSY26.
Four panels are scheduled in FY2022 regarding: (1) Family and Early
Childhood Retrospectives; (2) K-12 Education and Cognition; (3) Health
and Environment; and (4) Department of Defense Initiatives and
Assessments. Each panel is expected to have 4-7 members who will meet
several times over the course of 3-5 months before determining their
recommendations.
BLS has also funded a retrospective analysis of data from the
NLSY79 and NLSY97 cohorts. This analysis will document past usage of
different topics and variables, examine the publications that resulted
from this usage, and compare the NLSY cohorts to other major
longitudinal surveys and other BLS household surveys to identify areas
of overlap.
Finally, BLS has funded a study to evaluate alternative (non-
survey) data sources that may potentially be incorporated in the new
NLSY cohort to improve accuracy, increase granularity, provide
information on new topics, and/or reduce respondent burden. This study
will include a broad scan to identify potentially useful sources,
analyses to develop potential use cases, and information-gathering to
allow assessment of the feasibility and value of each use case.
IV. NLSY26 Development Plan
As submitted to Congress, the following 5-year development plan
would yield implementation of a new NLSY cohort in Fiscal Year 2026.
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FY Major tasks
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2020................. Planning.
2021................. Stakeholder outreach, including conferences and
web seminars; and continue planning, including
content panels, assessments of sample frames,
dissemination needs, and vendor capabilities.
2022................. Continue content panels and other design
activities (including sampling, survey,
materials, dissemination).
2023................. Complete content panels, continue design, and
begin survey development (sampling, survey,
questionnaire, materials, dissemination, and
systems work).
2024................. Continue survey and systems development and begin
pretesting preparations.
2025................. Pretest fielding, revisions to systems and the
survey resulting from the pretest, and
preparation for round 1 screening and data
collection to occur in 2026.
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V. Desired Focus of Comments
As BLS pursues the current and planned engagement and information-
gathering activities described above to support development of a new
NLSY cohort, BLS is also interested in hearing directly from the public
in response to this FRN. BLS is particularly interested in comments and
recommendations on the following aspects of the new NLSY cohort:
Questionnaire content
Survey methodology
Sampling
Data dissemination
The BLS welcomes comments on any aspect of the above areas and is
especially interested in comments on:
Research questions that a new cohort of the National
Longitudinal Surveys program would address at different points in the
life course.
The distinctive role of NLSY cohorts among the range of
survey and non-survey data sources.
Factors that inform researchers' choice of data sources.
Modifications in the coverage of specific topics compared
to previous NLSY cohorts. This could include any gaps in the current
data, `must keep' elements in the current data, or elements that are
less valuable.
Uses of data from a new NLSY cohort that BLS should
anticipate and prioritize (e.g., training of young researchers,
benchmarking specialized samples, policy analysis, cross-cohort
comparisons, basic research on human behavior, etc.).
Design and implementation features of a new NLSY cohort
that users will find most valuable (e.g., accessible public use files,
frequency of data collection, availability of biometric measures,
oversamples of specific populations, linkage possibilities to selected
administrative data, ease of use of data, alignment with other surveys,
etc.).
New social and economic trends that are important to
consider in designing a new NLSY cohort.
Any other issues BLS should consider in developing a new
NLSY cohort.
In addition, BLS is open to hearing from the public about how to
improve its current stakeholder engagement plans to promote equitable
and diversified feedback as a new NLSY cohort is developed.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and made available at https://www.bls.gov/nls/nlsy26.htm.
Signed at Washington, DC, on March 1, 2022.
Eric Molina,
Acting Chief, Division of Management Systems.
[FR Doc. 2022-04712 Filed 3-4-22; 8:45 am]
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