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

Table 1A- Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (data for half term dates only - 19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November)

Not the latest data

Published 19 January 2021

Last updated 19 January 2021

This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for half term dates only  -19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November. 

Schools within Local Authorities which were on half term were removed from calculations. For this reason, data within this file is not comparable to data within table 1b.  

Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.

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• Theme: COVID-19
• Publication: Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
• Release: Week 3 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Attendance in all state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
  • Number of children attending state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
  • Number of open state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
• Filters:
  • Date
• Time period: 2020 Week 43 to 2020 Week 45

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	Response_rate_from_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_state_schools_responded_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_open_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Proportion_of_open_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_state_schools_with_one_or_more_pupils_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_school_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Proportion_of_state_schools_with_one_or_more_pupils_self_isolating_due_to_COVID_contact_within_school_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_children_attending_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Attendance_in_all_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_pupils_with_a_SW_attending_in_all_state-funded_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Proportion_of_pupils_with_a_SW_attending_in_all_state-funded_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number_of_pupils_with_an_EHCP_attending_in_all_state-funded_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Proportion_of_pupils_with_an_EHCP_attending_in_all_state-funded_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	19/10/2020	77	16600	20600	99.6	4700	23	6858000	88.3	134000	83	233000	83.3
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	20/10/2020	77	16800	20600	99.5	4900	24.2	6826000	87.7	133000	82.4	233000	82.9
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	21/10/2020	75	16300	20500	99.4	5000	24.9	6765000	87	133000	81.4	230000	82.2
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	22/10/2020	72	15500	19800	99.3	5000	25.7	6515000	86.2	128000	80.5	220000	81.1
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	23/10/2020	61	13200	17800	99.2	4600	25.9	5716000	84.2	113000	78.4	194000	79.2

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 13 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Attendance_in_all_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Attendance in all state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
date	Date
Number_of_children_attending_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number of children attending state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
Number_of_open_state_schools_excluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number of open state schools (excluding schools on half term or inset days)
Number_of_pupils_with_a_SW_attending_in_all_state-funded_schoolsexcluding_schools_on_half_term_or_inset_days	Number of pupils with a SW attending in all state-funded schools(excluding schools on half term or inset days)

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Footnotes

1. From 12 October, the education settings survey changed and this new metric was added. The changes were made to give more comprehensive data about how many pupils are self-isolating for different reasons. There are no comparable figures to these from previous weeks.
2. The following education settings are included: academies (including free schools and studio schools), local authority maintained schools (excluding local authority nursery schools), non-maintained special schools, alternative provision and university technical colleges.
3. Pupils with a social worker are considered ‘children in need’. Our analysis after adjusting for non-response suggests that schools may be under-reporting the number of children with a social worker when compared to the most recently published children in need statistics. Therefore these estimates only account for pupils with a social worker that are identified by schools.
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. The following education settings are included: academies (including free schools and studio schools), local authority maintained schools (excluding local authority nursery schools), non-maintained special schools, alternative provision and university technical colleges.
6. From 12 October, schools were asked to exclude nursery children from their submission. A corresponding decrease was observed in submitted number on roll in schools with nurseries.

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