Description
This document describes the data included in the ‘Education provision: children under 5 years of age in England, January 2022’ National Statistics release’s underlying data files.
This data is released under the terms of the Open Government Licence (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in 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
This release provides the latest information on government-funded early years provision for children aged 2-4 in state-funded schools (including nurseries), and private, voluntary, and independent providers (including childminders) in England.
The information is based on data collected via the early years census, school census, and school level annual school census.
The underlying data files include national, regional, and local authority level information for the position during census week in January for years 2018 to 2022.
The following symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:
c to protect confidentiality - secondary suppression may also be applied to figures to protect confidentiality
z data not applicable
x data not available
~ used when a result that is not 0 (zero) would appear as 0 (zero) due to rounding
Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero.
Data files
All data files associated with this release are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.
