2016/20 Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B:16/20)
B&B:16/20 is the second follow-up data collection of bachelor’s degree recipients who completed their degree in the 2015–2016 academic year. B&B:16/20 draws from the 2015–16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16) to create a nationally representative sample of bachelor’s degree recipients. The first follow-up data collection, B&B:16/17, confirmed eligibility of the potential 2015–2016 baccalaureate recipients identified in NPSAS:16. In the second follow-up, B&B:16/20, sample members were contacted again during the 2020–2021 academic year. The eligible sample for B&B:16/20 consisted of over 26,200 individuals.
Study design
Cohort
Number of participants at first data collection
26,250 (participants)
Age at first data collection
22 – 23 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1992 - 1994 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Students who earned bachelor’s degrees during the 2015 -2016 academic year in the United States of America.
Sample features
Countries
Year of first data collection
2016
Primary Institutions
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Department of Education
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Interview – phone
- Secondary data
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- None
- None
- Census data
- Education data
- Other government data
- Tax, income & benefit data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
