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

Table 3 - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak Pre 17 July

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Published 8 December 2020

Last updated 8 December 2020

This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March - 17th July inclusive. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative. Please see the methodology document for more information.

Data set details

Theme: COVID-19
Publication: Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
Release: Week 49 2020
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Children attending
Children attending nursery
Children attending reception
Filters: Date
Time period: 2020 Week 13 to 2020 Week 29

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	response_rate	open_settings	proportion_of_settings_open	open_settings_to_nursery_reception_year1_or_year6	proportion_of_settings_open_to_nursery_reception_year1_or_year6	open_settings_to_year10_or_year12	proportion_of_settings_open_to_year10_or_year12	children_attending	proportion_children_attending	vulnerable_children_attending	children_with_ehcp_attending	children_with_social_worker_attending	children_with_ehcp_or_social_worker_attending	proportion_children_with_ehcp_or_social_worker_attending	otherwise_vulnerable_children_attending	children_critical_workers_attending	teaching_staff_attending_including_teaching_assistants	nonteaching_staff_attending_excluding_teaching_assistants	teaching_staff_attending_excluding_teaching_assistants	nonteaching_staff_attending_including_teaching_assistants	attending_nursery	attending_reception	attending_year1	attending_year6	attending_year10	attending_year12	proportion_attending_nursery_settings	proportion_attending_reception	proportion_attending_year1	proportion_attending_year6	proportion_attending_year10	proportion_attending_year12	proportion_attending_nursery_open_settings	proportion_attending_reception_open_settings	proportion_attending_year1_open_settings	proportion_attending_year6_open_settings	proportion_attending_year10_open_settings	proportion_attending_year12_open_settings
2020	Week 13	National	E92000001	England	23/03/2020	72	22900	93	.	.	.	.	330000	3.7	61000	27000	28000	49000	10	.	257000	283000	185000	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
2020	Week 13	National	E92000001	England	24/03/2020	76	23600	96	.	.	.	.	212000	2.4	39000	17000	20000	32000	6	.	168000	159000	122000	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
2020	Week 13	National	E92000001	England	25/03/2020	75	23500	96	.	.	.	.	175000	2	35000	14000	18000	28000	6	.	139000	130000	101000	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
2020	Week 13	National	E92000001	England	26/03/2020	75	23600	96	.	.	.	.	158000	1.8	33000	13000	18000	27000	5	.	126000	122000	95000	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
2020	Week 13	National	E92000001	England	27/03/2020	74	20000	81	.	.	.	.	124000	1.3	28000	11000	16000	23000	5		98000	101000	80000	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 39 variables
Variable name	Variable description
attending_nursery	Children attending nursery
attending_reception	Children attending reception
attending_year1	Children attending year 1
attending_year10	Children attending year 10
attending_year12	Children attending year 12

Footnotes

Figures from Friday 27 March relate to data as at 4pm on each day, prior to this figures related to data as at 6pm. Negligible changes to the estimates were seen between 4pm and 6pm.
The response rate for Friday 1 May was only 14% due to technical issues with DfE sign-in, the online system used by educational establishments to submit attendance data. This may have affected the accuracy of the figures. A lower response rate makes the methodology used to account for non-response slightly.
The response rates for Wednesday 13 and Friday 15 May were impacted slightly due to technical issues which made it more difficult for some schools to complete the survey. A lower response rate makes the methodology used to account for non-response slightly less reliable.
The following education settings are included: academies (including free schools and studio schools), local authority maintained schools (including local authority nursery schools), independent schools, non-maintained special schools, alternative provision, university technical colleges, FE colleges and sixth form colleges, and special post-16 institutions/specialist colleges.
From 23 March to 2 July the Autumn school census was used to determine year group population size. From 3 July, we switched to using the newly published Spring census. This change has the biggest impact on the proportion of nursery children in attendance. We estimate that this proportion falls by 5 percentage points when compared to using the Autumn census. Other year group attendance rates see a change of around 0.1 percentage points.
The response rate between Monday 6 April and Friday 17 April was low because it was the Easter break for most settings in England. Similarly, the response rate between Monday 25 May and Friday 29 May was low because it was half term for most settings in England.
From 1 June, the government asked schools to welcome back children in nursery, reception, year 1 and year 6, alongside children of critical workers and vulnerable children. As a result, changes were made to the survey of education settings to capture information about this wider group of attending pupils. From 15 June, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges were asked to begin providing face-to-face support to students in year 10 and 12 to supplement their learning from home, alongside full time provision for students from priority groups.
Settings are asked to provide a count of the number of children of critical workers and the number of vulnerable children. Some children are classified as both a child of a critical worker and a vulnerable child. Some settings have been counting these pupils as children of critical workers, but not in the count of vulnerable children. Therefore, the number of vulnerable children is an under-estimate. We estimate the true figure is up to 5% higher.
The following education settings are included: academies (including free schools and studio schools), local authority maintained schools (including local authority nursery schools), independent schools, non-maintained special schools and alternative provision.
Figures from Friday 27 March relate to data as at 4pm on each day, prior to this figures related to data as at 6pm. Negligible changes to the estimates were seen between 4pm and 6pm. Figures for Monday 1 June relate to data as at 3pm.
All figures are adjusted for non-response. This methodology was adjusted from Friday 27 March. See accompanying document for full methodology.

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