Early years census 2019: technical specification
Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early years census 2019.
Documents
Early years census 2019: business and technical specification, version 1.2
Ref: DFE-00165-2018PDF, 763KB, 43 pages
Early years census 2019: validation rules, version 1.0
MS Excel Spreadsheet, 145KB
Early years census 2019: validation rules, version 1.0
ODS, 33.1KB
This file is in an OpenDocument format
Details
Information about submitting data for the early years census 2019 for:
- suppliers of software for local authority management information systems (MIS)
- users of local authority MIS software
It explains:
- changes to the previous year’s census collection
- what data local authorities should supply at establishment level and child level
- how to structure the data in XML or CSV format
- how to check the data against the validation rules
The validation rules are available in Excel and OpenDocument formats.
Read more about submitting data for the early years census.
Published 29 May 2018
Last updated 1 August 2018 + show all updates
- Updated ‘Early years census 2019: business and technical specification’. Changes are described in the document’s version history.
- First published.
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