Guidance

School workforce census 2015: business and technical specification

Information on the scope and business rationale of the school workforce census 2015.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 21 May 2015
• Last updated: 7 August 2015 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 30 July 2019

These documents are for the 2015 school workforce census. For the current census, visit our guide to submitting data for the school workforce census.

Applies to England

Documents

School workforce census 2015: business and technical specification, version 1.1

PDF, 1.19 MB, 97 pages

School workforce census 2015: school summary report technical specification, version 1.0

Ref: DFE-00175-2015

PDF, 434 KB, 26 pages

Details

These documents give technical information about submitting data for the 2015 school workforce census. They describe the data items for collection in the census.

These documents are for software suppliers and users of:

• school management information systems (MIS)
• local authority HR and payroll systems

Schools can use the summary report to check the accuracy of their census data before sending it to their local authority or to us.

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

More guidance on submitting data for the school workforce census is available.

Published 21 May 2015
Last updated 7 August 2015 + show all updates

1. 7 August 2015

   Updated 'School workforce census 2015: business and technical specification' document.

2. 1 July 2015

   Added 'School workforce census 2015: school summary report technical specification' document.

3. 21 May 2015

   First published.