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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The Study of Early Education and Development (SEED) is a major study about early years education and its impacts on child development. It is funded by the Department for Education and is undertaken by NatCen Social Research, the University of Oxford, Action for Children and Frontier Economics. The study follows just under 6,000 children across England from the age of two, through to their early years at school. The aims of SEED are to:provide evidence of the impact of current early years provision on children’s outcomesprovide a basis for longitudinal assessment of the impact of early years provision on later attainmentinform policy development to improve children’s readiness for schoolassess the role and influence of the quality of early education provision on children’s outcomesassess the overall value for money of early education in England and the relative value for money associated with different types (e.g. private, voluntary, maintained) and quality of provisionexplore how parenting and the home learning environment interacts with early years education in affecting children’s outcomesThe longitudinal survey of families collects information at four time points: when the families’ child is about two years old (Wave 1 – baseline) (SN 8277) when the child is about three years old (Wave 2) (SN 8278) when the child is about four years old (Wave 3) when the child is about five years old (Wave 4) Data for Wave 4 are not available yet. Further information and research from the study are available on the GOV.UK and NatCen webpages. The Study of Early Education and Development: Wave 1, 2013-2014 is the first survey in the series and acts as a baseline. In total, 5,643 parents took part in Wave 1 and the overall response rate was 63 per cent. Once weighted, the baseline sample of families taking part in SEED is representative of all families with two-year-olds in England.Latest Edition...