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

Table 1A - Daily attendance in education during the COVID-19 outbreak in holiday periods (not comparable to other time periods)

Not the latest data

Published 25 May 2021

Last updated 25 May 2021

This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates affected by October half term and Easter break only.

Settings on half term or Easter break are excluded from these figures. 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 of settings that were not on half term or Easter break.

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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 21 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of open settings, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
  • Number of settings responded, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
  • Number of settings with one or more students self-isolating due to contact with a case of coronavirus in the setting, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
• Filters:
  • Date
  • Setting type or phase
• Time period: 2020 Week 43 to 2021 Week 16

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	date	phase	Response_rate_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_responded_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_open_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_open_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_with_one_or_more_students_self_isolating_due_to_covid_contact_in_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_with_one_or_more_students_self_isolating_due_to_covid_contact_in_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_with_sw_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_with_sw_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_with_ehcp_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_with_ehcp_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_fsm_eligible_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_fsm_eligible_attending_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_from_open_settings_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_from_open_settings_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_with_a_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_from_open_settings_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_from_open_settings_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_from_open_settings_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_because_setting_is_closed_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_because_setting_is_closed_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_students_absent_covid_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_students_absent_covid_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_on_roll_in_open_settings_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_covid_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_for_other_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teachers_and_school_leaders_absent_for_other_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_on_roll_in_open_settings_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_suspected_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_confirmed_case_of_covid_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_inside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_contact_with_case_of_covid_outside_setting_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_for_covid_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_for_other_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Proportion_teaching_assistants_and_other_staff_absent_for_other_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	19/10/2020	State-funded schools	77	16600	20600	99.6	4700	23	6858000	88.3	134000	83	233000	83.3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2020	Week 43	National	E92000001	England	20/10/2020	State-funded schools	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	State-funded schools	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	State-funded schools	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	State-funded schools	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 52 variables

Variable name	Variable description
date	Date
Number_open_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number of open settings, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
Number_responded_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number of settings responded, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
Number_students_absent_because_setting_is_closed_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number of students absent because their school is closed for covid-related reasons, excluding settings expected to be on holiday
Number_students_absent_covid_reasons_excl_settings_on_holiday	Number of students absent for covid related reasons (a suspected or confirmed case of coronavirus, self-isolation or school closure for covid-related reasons), excluding settings expected to be on holiday

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Footnotes

1. Absence rates for teaching assistants and other staff are likely to be less robust as more work part-time. There are likely to be inconsistencies in how schools treat part time staff in their reported data, for example some may update their on roll numbers daily to account for part-time staff ‘expected’ to be on-site and others may not.
2. The number of students on-site is calculated using a grossing methodology. This includes reported attendance from responding colleges and estimates of attendance in non-responding colleges. Two further education colleges are excluded from these metrics due to missing data used for the grossing methodology. See the methodology for further information.
3. All proportions are rounded to 1 decimal place. Where open rates are rounded to 100.0%, a small number of settings may have reported that they were closed.
4. The purpose of this data collection is primarily to understand attendance and teacher availability. This data is reported directly by schools via DfE's daily education settings survey. It is not the primary source of data on infection, incidence and COVID-19 cases overall.
5. 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.
6. Figures for independent schools are unlikely to be representative. We looked at a sample of non-responding school websites across different phases to assess whether they were open to children of key workers and vulnerable children. This was to enable us to assess whether non-responding schools were as likely to be open as the responding schools. For independent schools, we found evidence that non-responding schools were more likely to be closed than responding schools. Open rates and attendance rates for independent schools are likely to be lower than reported here.
7. Workforce absences are not known in closed schools. This means these figures are likely to be under-estimates of the numbers of workforce with confirmed or suspected cases and self-isolating, particularly when the proportion of schools closed for COVID-19 related reasons is higher.
8. On-site testing for staff was available from 4 January to 5 March 2021. All staff are now encouraged to take two rapid COVID-19 tests each week at home. For staff classified as clinically extremely vulnerable, on-site attendance at work is not mandatory. Rates of confirmed cases and self-isolation among workforce may be impacted by levels of testing.
9. There are only a small number of special post 16 settings therefore the data is expected to be variable and sensitive to changes in one or more settings.
10. 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.

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