Designed to assist Illinois public community colleges in satisfying state and federal reporting requirements, this handbook provides guidelines for conducting vocational education follow-up studies and reporting data. Following introductory information, an overview is presented of the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB) Management Information System and the ICCB's role in the follow-up survey process. Next, the handbook sets forth the purposes of the follow-up survey, which include determining the employment status, job location, and job-entry salaries of occupational program completers and leavers by specific program area; and obtaining an evaluation of both program completers' and non-completers' training at the community college by the employers of these students. The next sections explain the ICCB's guidelines for classifying program majors and provide definitions for occupational program completers and leavers. The handbook then offers procedural guidance on conducting the student survey (including information on the use of standardized student survey items) and on conducting the survey of employers of students who responded to the student follow-up survey and were employed in fields related to their community college program. A time schedule of submission dates is followed by discussions of community college responsibilities and ICCB responsibilities for statewide coordination. Appendices present standardized items for the student occupational follow-up survey and the employer occupational follow-up survey; coding and data entry format instructions; and operational definitions of program completers and leavers used in the survey. (RO)