Number of Children by Ethnicity and Age (2018 to 2021)
Not the latest data
Published
Last updated
Number of children in receipt of funded early education entitlements of each ethnicity, as reported on their census return.
On this page
Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Education provision: children under 5 years of age
- Release
- Reporting year 2021
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of three and four year olds registered
- Number of two year olds registered
- Filters
- Characteristic type
- Type of entitlement: funded or extended
- Time period
- 2018 to 2021
Data set preview
time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | la_name | entitlement_type | characteristic | characteristic_type | number_2_year_olds | number_3_4_year_olds |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Funded entitlement | Ethnicity | Total | 124542 | 1211975 | |||||
2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Funded entitlement | Ethnicity | White | 80000 | 845999 | |||||
2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Funded entitlement | Ethnicity | Mixed | 8969 | 78504 | |||||
2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Funded entitlement | Ethnicity | Asian | 9685 | 126684 | |||||
2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Funded entitlement | Ethnicity | Black | 8444 | 57393 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
---|---|
characteristic_type | Characteristic type - Select type of characteristic: example white |
entitlement_type | Type of entitlement: funded or extended - Select type of entitlement: funded or extended |
number_2_year_olds | Number of two year olds registered |
number_3_4_year_olds | Number of three and four year olds registered |
Footnotes
- "Other" includes Chinese children.
- Unclassified - child's ethnicity was refused or not obtained. These are included in the 'Total' numbers.
- 2021 is the first year of data covering COVID-19, collected during January's national lockdown. A higher proportion of children recorded as registered to receive early education entitlements will have been temporarily absent during census week itself than previous years.
Using this data
Download the underlying data as a compressed ZIP file
View or create your own tables
View tables that we have built for you, or create your own tables from open data using our table tool
Download this data using code
Access this data using common programming languages using the URL below.