Data set from National pupil projections

Pupil projections - Principal 2020

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Published 16 July 2020

Last updated 16 July 2020

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: National pupil projections
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• Number of rows: 80
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • actual population in 2005
  • actual population in 2006
  • actual population in 2007
  • actual population in 2008
  • actual population in 2009
  • actual population in 2010
  • actual population in 2011
  • actual population in 2012
  • actual population in 2013
  • actual population in 2014
  • actual population in 2015
  • actual population in 2016
  • actual population in 2017
  • actual population in 2018
  • actual population in 2019
  • actual population in 2020
  • projection for 2021
  • projection for 2022
  • projection for 2023
  • projection for 2024
  • projection for 2025
  • projection for 2026
  • projection for 2027
  • projection for 2028
  • projection for 2029
  • projection for 2030
• Filters:
  • Headcount or FTE
  • single year of age or age group
  • type of school
• Time period: 2020 January

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	projection_level	school_type	pupil_status	pupil_age	2005_actual	2006_actual	2007_actual	2008_actual	2009_actual	2010_actual	2011_actual	2012_actual	2013_actual	2014_actual	2015_actual	2016_actual	2017_actual	2018_actual	2019_actual	2020_actual	2021_projection	2022_projection	2023_projection	2024_projection	2025_projection	2026_projection	2027_projection	2028_projection	2029_projection	2030_projection
2020	January	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	Headcount	All	37,411	37,032	37,632	37,440	37,283	37,574	38,828	39,396	38,819	39,972	41,456	43,729	43,786	42,844	42,207	42,110	40,918	39,733	39,175	39,186	38,951	38,760	38,691	38,682	38,667	38,654
2020	January	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State nursery	FTE	All	22,918	22,963	23,343	22,939	22,561	22,390	22,557	22,710	22,342	23,032	23,747	25,008	25,661	27,949	27,945	28,531	28,294	27,750	27,466	27,547	27,416	27,295	27,252	27,250	27,241	27,233
2020	January	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	Headcount	Under 5	809,206	800,265	803,781	826,994	845,952	864,100	881,742	909,884	926,681	926,287	938,200	959,089	955,072	923,712	907,646	903,423	893,134	865,070	839,993	823,337	824,671	819,259	814,884	813,062	812,923	812,586
2020	January	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	Under 5	673,982	670,246	674,101	696,416	716,096	731,546	746,308	772,197	791,876	791,298	804,164	823,240	823,184	814,664	804,738	807,346	805,104	782,237	760,171	743,884	746,036	741,271	737,185	735,418	735,330	735,034
2020	January	National	E92000001	England	Principal	State primary	FTE	5	558,564	543,669	533,970	529,473	549,190	564,801	577,296	589,563	608,988	633,115	629,468	642,315	653,978	653,715	636,664	624,892	625,905	630,130	612,436	593,961	576,512	579,894	576,121	572,420	570,639	570,632

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 29 variables

Variable name	Variable description
2005_actual	actual population in 2005
2006_actual	actual population in 2006
2007_actual	actual population in 2007
2008_actual	actual population in 2008
2009_actual	actual population in 2009
2010_actual	actual population in 2010
2011_actual	actual population in 2011
2012_actual	actual population in 2012
2013_actual	actual population in 2013
2014_actual	actual population in 2014
2015_actual	actual population in 2015
2016_actual	actual population in 2016
2017_actual	actual population in 2017
2018_actual	actual population in 2018
2019_actual	actual population in 2019
2020_actual	actual population in 2020
2021_projection	projection for 2021
2022_projection	projection for 2022
2023_projection	projection for 2023
2024_projection	projection for 2024
2025_projection	projection for 2025
2026_projection	projection for 2026
2027_projection	projection for 2027
2028_projection	projection for 2028
2029_projection	projection for 2029
2030_projection	projection for 2030
pupil_age	single year of age or age group
pupil_status	Headcount or FTE
school_type	type of school

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