Data set from Education provision: children under 5 years of age

2 Children registered and providers by provider type

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Published 6 July 2023

Last updated 6 July 2023

Number of children registered for and number of providers delivering government-funded early years provision by age, year group, and provider type. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Education provision: children under 5 years of age
• Release: Reporting year 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number of registered children
  • Number of providers
• Filters:
  • Entitlement type and year group
  • Type of provider
  • Age
• Time period: 2018 to 2023

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	entitlement_type	provider_type_group	provider_type	year_group	age	number_children	number_providers
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	Total	1320242	47781
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	2-year-olds	124211	20991
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	3-year-olds	576886	36715
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	4-year-olds	619145	38524
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						15-hour entitlement	Total	Total	Total	3 and 4-year-olds	1196031	46187

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
age	Age
number_children	Number of registered children
number_providers	Number of providers
provider_type	Type of provider
year_group	Entitlement type and year group

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Footnotes

1. Children who split their entitlement across more than one private, voluntary or independent provider are only counted at the provider where they spend the majority of their time.
2. Children attending a general hospital school and a small number of children attending a special school do not follow the national curriculum. These children are included in totals but not breakdowns by year group.
3. Where children under 4 years of age are recorded as in reception, this may be because they attend a school with a two-year reception class or other mixed-year class, because the local authority has agreed it would be beneficial to start reception year early, or for another reason.
4. A very small number of children under 5 years of age are registered in a higher year group than reception. This may be because the local authority has agreed it would be beneficial to the child, or for another reason. These children have been included in the reception category.
5. Some state-funded nursery schools have a reception class and/or some children may continue to attend their state-funded nursery school in reception year until they are ready for primary school.
6. Data collected in 2021 (and to a lesser extent 2022) was affected by the impact of COVID-19 uncertainty on providers and parents. Further information is available in the methodology note.
7. In some years, data for a small number of local authorities is of low reliability due to error. See methodology for more details.

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