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Ofsted project Census 2021 attributes England and Wales with geography

Subset of Census 2021 England and Wales data for the Ofsted project, to estimate the number of school-aged children not attending registered education settings.

The 2021 Census data for England and Wales is 100% attribute data. The dataset contains no direct identifiers but is identifiable. 

The total population in 2021 was 59,597,542 (56,490,048 in England and 3,107,494 in Wales). The number of records in the individual tables varies according to that table type.

This dataset is ingested into the Integrated Data Service (IDS) specifically for the Ofsted project, where it is being used to estimate the number of school-aged children not attending registered education settings. The lowest level of geography is the Address Index and the spatial coverage of this data is England and Wales.

All data hosted on the IDS are de-identified.

Keywords:

Census, Ofsted