Office of Management and Budget Clearance

O*NET Data Collection

On November 22, 2021, OMB approved external site a three-year extension of the O*NET Data Collection effort. In 2021, the O*NET project sought OMB approval for this extension. A Federal Register Notice external site, published on October 18, 2021, announced the availability to the public of the "Information Collection Request" (ICR).

Download: 2021 OMB Clearance Package

All materials are provided in PDF format.

OMB Clearance Package:

• Supporting Statement Part A: Justification
• Supporting Statement Part B: Statistical Methods
• Appendices: Table of Contents

Appendix A:

• WIOA Public Law 113 Publication 128
• 29 U.S.C. 49l-2
• O*NET Citations in the Code of Federal Regulations

Appendix B:

• The O*NET Program

Appendix C:

• O*NET Web Site Statistics and Data and Products in Use

Appendix D:

• Publications Referencing the O*NET Data Collection Program

Appendix E:

• Summary of Response Rate Experience to Date

Appendix F:

• Mailing Materials
• Toolkit for Business

Appendix G:

• Questionnaires: Establishment – Knowledge
• Questionnaires: Establishment – Work Activities
• Questionnaires: Establishment – Work Context
• Questionnaires: OE – Background
• Questionnaires: OE – Knowledge
• Questionnaires: OE – Tasks
• Questionnaires: OE – Work Activities
• Questionnaires: OE – Work Context
• Level Scale Anchor Updates

Appendix H:

• Detailed Burden Calculations

Appendix I:

• Nonresponse Analysis

Appendix J:

• References

Appendix K:

• 60-Day Federal Register Notice

Previous OMB Clearance Packages

The materials submitted to OMB in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2018 can be found in our Reports and Documents section.

Data Publication Schedule

The O*NET 26.1 database represents the most recent update resulting from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved data collection program. This database release includes an update of 100 occupations from job incumbent and occupational expert sources. The schedule below provides both past and targeted publication dates, along with the numbers of occupations scheduled for update during each release period.

821 occupations have been updated by job incumbents and occupational experts to date. You can view the full list of updated occupations online. 724 of these occupations have more than one update. You can view the list of occupations with more than one update as well.

Lists of occupations are provided below. These lists were developed based on when the occupations were updated and published.

Target Date	Database Version	Occupations Updated 1
April 2003	5.0	54
July 2004	6.0	126
December 2004	7.0	100
June 2005	8.0	100
December 2005	9.0	100
June 2006	10.0	100
December 2006	11.0	101
June 2007	12.0	100
June 2008	13.0	108 2
June 2009	14.0	117
June 2010	15.0	120
July 2011	16.0	107
July 2012	17.0	108
July 2013	18.0	105
July 2014	19.0	126
August 2015	20.0	102
August 2016	21.0	116
August 2017	22.0	100
August 2018	23.0	100
August 2019	24.0	100
August 2020	25.0	100
August 2021	26.0	100
	Total updates to date	2,290

¹ The number of occupations refers to those updated by the job incumbent and occupational expert sources. Additional occupations may have subsets of their data updated by alternative sources (e.g., analyst ratings, transactional data) at different dates than those listed above.

² Legislators (11-1031.00) and Mathematical Technicians (15-2091.00) were not updated by job incumbents or occupational expert sources.

Occupational Code Assignment

On September 24, 2019, OMB approved a three-year extension of the Occupational Code Assignment (OCA) process. In 2019, the Department of Labor sought OMB approval for this extension. A Federal Register Notice external site, published on August 23, 2019, announced the submission for OMB review and a comment request on the "Information Collection Request" (ICR), downloadable below in PDF format. The public comment period concluded on September 23, 2019.

Information Collection Request:

• Supporting Statement for Extension (approved)

OCA Form:

• OCA Form - Part A