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List a publication’s data sets

Lists summary details of all the data sets related to a publication.

The URL for this endpoint is:

GET https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}/data-sets

Parameters

Path parameters

The following parameters will need to be substituted into the URL path.

Parameter Type Required Description
publicationId string true

The ID of the publication.

version string true

The requested API version

Defaults to: 1.0

Query parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
page integer false

The page of results to fetch.

Defaults to: 1

Validation constraints:

  • Format: int32

  • Minimum: 1

pageSize integer false

The maximum number of results per page.

Defaults to: 10

Validation constraints:

  • Format: int32

  • Minimum: 1

  • Maximum: 20

Example request

To illustrate how to use this API endpoint, we have provided some samples below in various languages.

cURL

curl -X GET https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}/data-sets

JavaScript

const url = 'https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}/data-sets';

const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: 'GET',
});

console.log(response.json());

Python

import requests

url = 'https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}/data-sets'

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.text)

R

library(httr)

url <- 'https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}/data-sets'

response <- httr::GET(url)

output <- content(response)

Responses

Status Description Media Type Schema
200

The paginated list of data sets

application/json DataSetPaginatedListViewModel
400

Bad Request

application/json ValidationProblemViewModel

Example successful response

{
  "paging": {
    "page": 1,
    "pageSize": 20,
    "totalResults": 60,
    "totalPages": 3
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "7588c2d6-9e8a-4d84-8f19-6b8d52a01fbd",
      "title": "Absence rates by geographic level",
      "summary": "Absence information for all enrolments in schools.",
      "status": "Published",
      "latestVersion": {
        "version": "2.0",
        "published": "2024-03-01T09:30:00+00:00",
        "totalResults": 1000000,
        "file": {
          "id": "e0754872-3206-4918-aad4-029eaaae191f"
        },
        "timePeriods": {
          "start": "2024 January",
          "end": "2024 December"
        },
        "geographicLevels": [
          "NAT",
          "REG",
          "LA"
        ],
        "filters": [
          "Characteristic",
          "School type"
        ],
        "indicators": [
          "string"
        ]
      },
      "supersedingDataSetId": "string(uuid)"
    }
  ]
}