Academic year 2022/23

Elective home education

Data guidance

Published 18 May 2023

Description

This document describes the data included in the Elective home education ad-hoc statistics release underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (opens in a new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in a new tab). The methodology document should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

The release provides information on the number of children in elective home education at census date in each term, plus the number of children in elective home education education at any time in the previous academic year.

File formats and conventions

LA and regional data has been rounded to the nearest 10, national figures are rounded to the nearest 100.

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data.

x - unavailable

low - denotes figures based on count that rounds to 0, but is not 0. Figures may not sum to breakdowns due to rounding.

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Elective home education at census date

Filename: ehe_census.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2022/23 Autumn term to 2022/23 Summer term
Content: The number of children in elective home education at the census date in each term. Includes Autumn 2022 to Spring 2023.
Includes breakdowns by sex, expected year group and primary reason for EHE

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
ehe_census_date	Number of EHE children on census date
filter	Number of EHE children on census date by filter

Footnotes

Data was received from 93% of local authorities in the Autumn term, 95% in the Spring term and 97% in the Summer term. To account for non-response, national figures have been uprated based on local authority pupil populations.

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Elective home education at any point in the academic year

Filename: ehe_academic_year.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority; National; Regional
Time period: 2021/22
Content: The number of children in elective home education (EHE) at any point in the academic year. Includes 2021/22 academic year only.
Includes the number of starts in EHE, number of returns to education, number of section 437(1) notices issued, number of school attendance orders and school attendance orders revoked

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
ehe_anytime_full_year	Number of EHE children at any point during the year
ehe_returns_full_year	Number of EHE children returning to school during the year
ehe_sao_issued_full_year	Number of school attendance orders issued
ehe_sao_revoked_full_year	Number of school attendance orders revoked
ehe_section_437_full_year	Number of section 437(1) notices issued
ehe_starts_full_year	Number of children who started EHE during the year

Footnotes

Data was received from 93% of local authorities in the Autumn term, 95% in the Spring term and 97% in the Summer term. To account for non-response, national figures have been uprated based on local authority pupil populations.

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