Guidance

School census spring and summer 2014: technical specification

Technical specification defining the scope of the school census spring and summer 2014, including the business rationale for the collection.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 16 July 2013

This publication was withdrawn on 31 July 2019

This document is for the 2014 school census. For the current census, visit our guide to submitting data for the school census.

Documents

School census spring and summer 2014: business and technical specification

Ref: DFE-00067-2013

PDF, 914 KB, 76 pages

Details

This specification defines the scope of the school census spring and summer 2014 data collections. It contains:

• lists of any changes to the census collection
• data module descriptions
• XML message structure definition
• detailed specifications for pupil- and school-level codesets
• validation check information

This guide must be read in conjunction with:

• the current version of the common basic data set (CBDS).
• the validation rules workbook
• XML schemas
• XSLT validation rules

Published 16 July 2013