Department for Education

Week 49 2020

Attendance in education and early years settings during COVID-19

Attendance in education settings during the coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic since Monday 23 March 2020 and early years settings since Thursday 16 April 2020.

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• Published: 8 December 2020
• Last updated: 15 December 2020

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• Table 1B- Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak (excludes half term dates 19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November)

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term dates. Half term includes &nbsp;19th October - 23rd October, and 2nd November.&nbsp;</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p><p>Further details on the column headings can be found in the <strong>“Table 1b variable additions and removal log</strong>” ancillary file.</p>

  • Number of rows: 52
  • Indicators:
    • Attendance in all state schools
    • Attendance in fully open state schools
    • Number of children attending fully open state schools
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 37 to 2020 Week 49

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• Table 2- Daily attendance in early years settings during the COVID outbreak

  National

  <p>The data in this file contains weekly attendance data for early years settings. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 43
  • Indicators:
    • Children of critical workers attending early years settings
    • Number of children attending early years settings
    • Number of closed early years settings
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 16 to 2020 Week 49

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• 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)

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for <strong>half term dates only</strong> &nbsp;-19th October - 23rd October and 2nd November.&nbsp;</p><p>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. &nbsp;</p><p>Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>.</p>

  • Number of rows: 7
  • 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 4 - Daily attendance in responding education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak not nationally representative Pre 17 July

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March - 17th July inclusive. Data is in this file only contains data on responding schools so it is<strong> not nationally representative.&nbsp;</strong> Please see the methodology document for more information.&nbsp;</p>

  • Number of rows: 36
  • Indicators:
    • Open responding settings (not nationally representative)
    • Proportion of responding settings open (not nationally representative)
    • Proportion of settings usually accepting these year groups open to nursery reception year 1 or year 6 (not nationally representative)
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 23 to 2020 Week 29

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• Table 3 - Daily attendance in education settings during the COVID-19 outbreak Pre 17 July

  National

  <p>This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings from 23 March - 17th July inclusive. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it<strong> is nationally representative</strong>. &nbsp;Please see the methodology document for more information.&nbsp;</p>

  • Number of rows: 86
  • Indicators:
    • Children attending
    • Children attending nursery
    • Children attending reception
  • Filters:
    • Date
  • Time period: 2020 Week 13 to 2020 Week 29

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• Education Settings Survey questions since 1 September

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• Pre-release access list

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• Table 1b variable additions and removals log

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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

A summary of attendance in education settings from Monday 23 March to Thursday 3 December and early years settings from Thursday 16 April to Thursday 3 December.

From 12 October, the education settings survey changed and therefore some metrics that used to be presented have been discontinued. The changes were made to give more comprehensive data about how many pupils are isolating from school for different reasons. There are no comparable figures to these from previous weeks.

This publication provides a high-level national summary of estimates from the Department for Education's education settings survey and local authority early years survey. We are working to expand the scope of published data in future releases. 

Coverage

The data covers England only. Statistics in table 1b are shown at national level and local authority level. 

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All files are .csv format. 

Where metrics have been discontinued due to a change in the education settings survey, a “-” symbol is used in that particular cell. 

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