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

Table 5 - Weekly attendance in early years settings during the COVID-19 outbreak at local authority level

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Published 19 October 2021

Last updated 19 October 2021

This file contains local authority responses to the early years local authority survey from Monday 4 April 2020 to Thursday 27 May 2021. Values of less than 5 for the Total Children in Early Years Settings and  Total Vulnerable Children in Early Years Settings have been suppressed and have been replaced with a “c”. Some responses from local authorities during this time period have been removed where the Department for Education has been notified of a mistaken entry, or where the department believes a mistaken entry has been given based on high level validation checks. Additionally, where a local authority has submitted multiple responses on the same day only the most recent response on that date has been retained. The data covers England only. Data is in this file has been not been scaled to account for non-response so it is not 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: Local authority
• Indicators:
  • Count of Closed Early Years Settings
  • Count of Open Early Years Settings
  • Total Children in Early Years Settings
• Filters:
  • Date
• Time period: 2020 Week 15 to 2021 Week 9

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	date	la_name	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	old_la_code	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	total_early_years_settings_reported_by_la	count_of_open_early_years_settings	count_of_closed_early_years_settings	total_children_in_early_years_settings	total_vulnerable_children_in_early_years_settings
2020	Week 15	06/04/2020	Barking and Dagenham	Local authority	E92000001	England	301	E12000007	London	E09000002	299	34	265	54	c
2020	Week 15	06/04/2020	Barnet	Local authority	E92000001	England	302	E12000007	London	E09000003	613	90	516	73	c
2020	Week 15	06/04/2020	Barnsley	Local authority	E92000001	England	370	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000016	290	156	134	113	7
2020	Week 15	06/04/2020	Bedford	Local authority	E92000001	England	822	E12000006	East of England	E06000055	297	106	191	600	50
2020	Week 15	06/04/2020	Bexley	Local authority	E92000001	England	303	E12000007	London	E09000004	547	182	355	144	17

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
count_of_closed_early_years_settings	Count of Closed Early Years Settings
count_of_open_early_years_settings	Count of Open Early Years Settings
date	Date
total_children_in_early_years_settings	Total Children in Early Years Settings
total_early_years_settings_reported_by_la	Total Early Years Settings Reported by LA

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Footnotes

1. Local authority responses to the early years local authority survey from Monday 4 April 2020 to Thursday 27 May 2021. Values of less than 5 for the Total Children in Early Years Settings and Total Vulnerable Children in Early Years Settings have been suppressed and have been replaced with a “c”. Some responses from local authorities during this time period have been removed where the Department for Education has been notified of a mistaken entry, or where the department believes a mistaken entry has been given based on high level validation checks. The data presented is largely as received from Local Authorities. While there are some basic validation checks on very unusual values, the frequency of data the data collection means it is not possible to validate every value. As such caution should be applied when viewing LA level data. Additionally, where a local authority has submitted multiple responses on the same day only the most recent response on that date has been retained. The data covers England only.

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