Data set from Early years education recovery

Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

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Published 25 January 2024

Last updated 25 January 2024

Total number of schools, number of LanguageScreens and estimated number of children for each academic year.

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Data set details

• Theme: Early years
• Publication: Early years education recovery
• Release: January 2024
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Cumulative total of registered schools
  • Number of registered schools
  • Estimated number of children
• Time period: 2020/21 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 4 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	number_of_schools_yearly	number_of_schools_cumulative	lang_screen_assessments_yearly	lang_screen_assessments_cumulative	estimate_of_children_yearly	estimate_of_children_cumulative
202021	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	6668	6668	183102	183102	35304.2695	35304.2695
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	4418	11086	282563	465665	58695.7305	94000
202223	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	26	11112	121956	587621	58833.3897	152833.3897
202324	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	0	11112	60911	648532	58833.3897	211666.7794

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
estimate_of_children_cumulative	Cumulative total of estimated number of children
estimate_of_children_yearly	Estimated number of children
lang_screen_assessments_cumulative	Cumulative total of LanguageScreen assessments
lang_screen_assessments_yearly	Number of LanguageScreen assessments
number_of_schools_cumulative	Cumulative total of registered schools

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Footnotes

1. The estimate for the number of children is based on data included in EEF's Nuffield Early Language Intervention Scale-up: Evaluation Report - Year 2. Figures given here are obtained from calculations. More information can be found in the methodology.
2. The number of LanguageScreen assessments is accurate up to the end of December 2023.
3. The estimated number of children covers the whole academic year.
4. The cumulative total of registered schools is accurate up to the end of December 2023.

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