Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2019 to 2020 school census data.

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School census 2019 to 2020: business and technical information

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School census 2019 to 2020: validation rules

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School census 2019 to 2020: validation rules

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Details

This is technical information about submitting data for the school census 2019 to 2020.

Use this if you’re a:

  • supplier of software for school management information systems (MIS)
  • user of school MIS software

The specification contains:

  • changes to the previous year’s census collection
  • what data schools should supply at school level and pupil level
  • how to structure the data in XML
  • how to check the data against the validation rules

Software suppliers should use the list of validation rules so that schools can validate the data they submit.

You should also read the common basic data set (CBDS). This defines common data items that schools use in MIS software and that we use in our data collections.

More guidance on submitting school census data is also available.

Published 30 January 2019
Last updated 25 September 2019 + show all updates

  1. Updated ‘School census 2019 to 2020: business and technical information’. Changes are listed in the version history.
  2. Updated ‘School census 2019 to 2020: validation rules’, changes are listed in the version history.
  3. Updated ‘School census 2019 to 2020: business and technical specification’, changes are listed in the version history. Also updated the validation rules.
  4. Updated School census 2019 to 2020: business and technical specification. The changes are listed in the version history.
  5. Updated school census 2019 to 2020: validation rules.
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  7. Added validation rules for school census 2019 to 2020
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