Expansion to early childcare entitlements: eligibility codes issued and validated
Data guidance
Published
Description
This data reports management information from DfE's Eligibility Checking Service.
Coverage
We are publishing cumulative numbers of two-year-old children applying for the April 2024 term.
File formats and conventions
Three variables are reported - Codes Issued, Codes Validated, and the percentage of issued codes which have been validated.
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.
Issued and validated code totals nationally as at 17th April
Filename
18042024_national_data.csv
Geographic levels
National
Time period
2024
Content
This file report total counts of codes issued and validated for two-year-olds by 17th April 2024.
Variable names and descriptions
Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:
Variable name
Variable description
codes_issued
Codes issued for two-year-olds
codes_validated
Codes validated for two-year-olds
percentage_validated
Percentage of codes validated
Footnotes
Whilst care has been taken to remove duplicates from the data, as described in the methodology section, there may be unique cases where more than one code may exist for one child.