4 Headline measures by deprivation
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Headline measures by income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI 2025) decile and sex.
Sub-national breakdowns are based on the location of the child’s residence.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Early years
- Publication
- Early years foundation stage profile results
- Release
- Academic year 2025/26
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 51,561
- Geographic levels
- Local authority district, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of children with a good level of development
- Percentage of children with a good level of development
- Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals
- Percentage of children at expected level across all early learning goals
- Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child
- Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning
- Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning
- Number of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level
- Percentage of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level
- Number of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level
- Percentage of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level
- Number of children
- Filters
- Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) decile
- Sex
- Time period
- 2021/22 to 2025/26
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | lad_code | lad_name | idaci_decile | sex | children_count | elgs_expected_average | all_elgs_expected_children_count | all_elgs_expected_children_percent | comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count | comm_lang_lit_expected_children_percent | gld_children_count | gld_children_percent | zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_count | zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_percent | zero_elgs_all_expected_children_count | zero_elgs_all_expected_children_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | Total | 74288 | 13.132834 | 45522 | 61.277730 | 47636 | 64.123412 | 46952 | 63.202671 | 6161 | 8.293399 | 5900 | 7.942063 | ||||
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | Female | 36225 | 14.119337 | 24949 | 68.872326 | 25827 | 71.296066 | 25469 | 70.307798 | 1971 | 5.440994 | 1865 | 5.148378 | ||||
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | 1 | Male | 38063 | 12.193968 | 20573 | 54.049865 | 21809 | 57.297113 | 21483 | 56.440638 | 4190 | 11.008066 | 4035 | 10.600846 | ||||
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | 10 | Total | 44770 | 15.728099 | 36485 | 81.494304 | 37524 | 83.815055 | 36825 | 82.253741 | 833 | 1.860621 | 776 | 1.733304 | ||||
| 202526 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | 10 | Female | 21853 | 16.178969 | 19070 | 87.264906 | 19479 | 89.136503 | 19174 | 87.740814 | 247 | 1.130280 | 229 | 1.047911 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| all_elgs_expected_children_count | Number of children at expected level across all early learning goals |
| all_elgs_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children at expected level across all early learning goals |
| children_count | Number of children |
| comm_lang_lit_expected_children_count | Number of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
| comm_lang_lit_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children at expected level in Communication & Language and Literacy areas of learning |
| elgs_expected_average | Average number of early learning goals at expected level per child |
| gld_children_count | Number of children with a good level of development |
| gld_children_percent | Percentage of children with a good level of development |
| idaci_decile | Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI) decile - 1 = 10% most deprived, 10 = 10% least deprived |
| sex | Sex |
| zero_elgs_all_expected_children_count | Number of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_all_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children with zero early learning goals at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_count | Number of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level |
| zero_elgs_gld_expected_children_percent | Percentage of children with zero ELGs (of those contributing to GLD) at the expected level |
Footnotes
- Sub-national breakdowns are based on the location of the child’s residence.
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