Guidance

Early years census 2016: technical specification

Technical specification and validation rules for local authorities and software suppliers preparing for the early years census 2016.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 1 September 2015
• Last updated: 12 February 2016 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Early years census 2016: business and technical specification

Ref: DFE-00237-2015

MS Word Document, 459 KB

Early years census 2016: validation rules

ODS, 37.3 KB

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Early years census 2016: validation rules

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 139 KB

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Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the early years census 2016.

It is 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

Read more guidance on submitting data for the early years census.

Published 1 September 2015
Last updated 12 February 2016 + show all updates

1. 12 February 2016

   Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.

2. 5 January 2016

   Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.

3. 1 December 2015

   Updated the validation rules document. The version history describes the changes.

4. 23 November 2015

   Updated specification document. The version history describes the changes.

5. 22 October 2015

   Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.

6. 15 October 2015

   Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.

7. 10 September 2015

   Updated the validation rules. The version history describes the changes.

8. 1 September 2015

   First published.