[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 50 (Thursday, March 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16259-16260]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05958]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[Docket No. ED-2013-ICCD-0029]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request; 
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) 2013-2016

AGENCY: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Institute of 
Education Sciences (IES), ED.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), 
ED is proposing a revision of a current information collection.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
May 13, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in response to this notice should be 
submitted electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at 
http://www.regulations.gov by selecting Docket ID number ED-2013-ICCD-
0029 or via postal mail, commercial delivery, or hand delivery. Please 
note that comments submitted by fax or email and those submitted after 
the comment period will not be accepted. Written requests for 
information or comments submitted by postal mail or delivery should be 
addressed to the Director of the Information Collection Clearance 
Division, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., LBJ 
Room 2E117, Washington, DC 20202-4537.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Electronically mail 
[email protected]. Please do not send comments here.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires that Federal agencies provide 
interested parties an early opportunity to comment on information 
collection requests. The Director, Information Collection Clearance 
Division, Privacy, Information and Records Management Services, Office 
of Management, publishes this notice containing proposed information 
collection requests at the beginning of the Departmental review of the

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information collection. The Department of Education is especially 
interested in public comment addressing the following issues: (1) Is 
this collection necessary to the proper functions of the Department; 
(2) will this information be processed and used in a timely manner; (3) 
is the estimate of burden accurate; (4) how might the Department 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and (5) how might the Department minimize the burden of this 
collection on the respondents, including through the use of information 
technology. Please note that written comments received in response to 
this notice will be considered public records.
    Title of Collection: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 
(IPEDS) 2013-2016.
    OMB Control Number: 1850-0582.
    Type of Review: Revision of a Current Information Collection.
    Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal Governments.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 77,600.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 954,030.
    Abstract: The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System 
(IPEDS) is a web-based data collection system designed to collect basic 
data from all postsecondary institutions in the United States and the 
other jurisdictions. IPEDS enables NCES to report on key dimensions of 
postsecondary education such as enrollments, degrees and other awards 
earned, tuition and fees, average net price, student financial aid, 
graduation rates, revenues and expenditures, faculty salaries, and 
staff employed. The IPEDS web-based data collection system was 
implemented in 2000-01, and it collects basic data from approximately 
7,500 postsecondary institutions in the United States and the other 
jurisdictions that are eligible to participate in Title IV Federal 
financial aid programs. All Title IV institutions are required to 
respond to IPEDS (Section 490 of the Higher Education Amendments of 
1992 (Pub. L. 102-325)). IPEDS allows other (non-title IV) institutions 
to participate on a voluntary basis. About 200 elect to respond. IPEDS 
data are available to the public through the College Navigator and 
IPEDS Data Center Web sites. The National Center for Education 
Statistics (NCES) seeks authorization to continue its IPEDS data 
collection. Current authorization expires 6/30/2014 (OMB No. 1850-
0582). We are requesting a new clearance for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 
data collections now in order to provide institutions a one-year 
advance notice of changes to the current data collection. Because the 
already approved 2013-14 IPEDS data collection has not yet taken place, 
we are carrying over the documentation and estimated burden associated 
with the 2013-14 data collection.

    Dated: March 11, 2013.
Kate Mullan,
Acting Director, Information Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 
Information and Records Management Services, Office of Management.
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