Data set from Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Table 2 - Daily attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak

Not the latest data

Published 19 October 2021

Last updated 19 October 2021

The data in this file contains weekly attendance data for early years settings. Data in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.

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Data set details

• Theme: COVID-19
• Publication: Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
• Release: Week 42 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Children of critical workers attending early years settings
  • Number of children attending early years settings
  • Number of closed early years settings
• Filters:
  • Date
• Time period: 2020 Week 16 to 2021 Week 9

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	Open_settings	Proportion_of_settings_open	Closed_settings	Proportion_of_settings_closed	Settings_with_unknown_status	Proportion_of_settings_with_unknown_status	Children_attending	Vulnerable_children_attending	Children_of_critical_workers_attending
2020	Week 16	National	E92000001	England	16/04/2020	22000	32	39000	56	8000	12	65000	6000	59000
2020	Week 17	National	E92000001	England	20/04/2020	23000	33	39000	56	7000	11	67000	8000	59000
2020	Week 17	National	E92000001	England	23/04/2020	23000	34	39000	57	6000	9	74000	9000	64000
2020	Week 18	National	E92000001	England	27/04/2020	24000	34	39000	56	7000	10	74000	10000	64000
2020	Week 18	National	E92000001	England	30/04/2020	24000	35	39000	57	6000	9	79000	10000	69000

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 10 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Children_attending	Number of children attending early years settings
Children_of_critical_workers_attending	Children of critical workers attending early years settings
Closed_settings	Number of closed early years settings
date	Date
Open_settings	Number of open early years settings

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Footnotes

1. Ordinarily, fewer early years settings are open and fewer children are in attendance during school holidays. This is due to reduced demand for childcare and the closure of school-based settings.
2. The data collection began in April 2020. For the 2020/21 academic year, the data collection was paused during the Christmas, Easter and summer holidays. The data collection resumed on 16 September for the start of the 2021/22 academic year.
3. The Prime Minister announced on 4 January 2021 that early years settings remain open for all children during the national lockdown.
4. All national level figures are adjusted for non-response. Regional and local authority level figures are based on responding schools only. See accompanying document for full methodology.
5. From 16 April to 18 June 2020, the local authority early years data collection was twice-weekly. The collection became weekly from 25 June 2020, and then fortnightly from 29 April 2021. From September 2021 the survey became monthly.
6. From 1 June 2020, the government asked early years settings to begin welcoming back all children in addition to those of critical workers and vulnerable children. The methodology to adjust figures for non-response was also updated to reflect this change.

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