Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 12 September - year to date

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Published 27 July 2023

Last updated 27 July 2023

Year-to-date local authority, regional and national attendance since 12 September 2022, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Totals for all schools are also included that include estimates for non-response.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil attendance in schools
• Release: Week 28 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • School Type
• Time period: 2022/23

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	school_type	num_schools	enrolments	present_sessions	overall_attendance	approved_educational_activity	overall_absence	authorised_absence	unauthorised_absence	late_sessions	possible_sessions	reason_present_am	reason_present_pm	reason_present	reason_l_present_late_before_registers_closed	reason_i_authorised_illness	reason_m_authorised_medical_dental	reason_r_authorised_religious_observance	reason_s_authorised_study_leave	reason_t_authorised_grt_absence	reason_h_authorised_holiday	reason_e_authorised_excluded	reason_c_authorised_other	reason_b_aea_education_off_site	reason_d_aea_dual_registration	reason_j_aea_interview	reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	reason_w_aea_work_experience	reason_g_unauthorised_holiday	reason_u_unauthorised_late_after_registers_closed	reason_o_other_unauthorised	reason_n_no_reason_yet	reason_x_not_attending_covid_non_compulsory	total_num_schools	total_enrolments	attendance_perc	overall_absence_perc	authorised_absence_perc	unauthorised_absence_perc	illness_perc	appointments_perc	unauth_hol_perc	unauth_oth_perc	unauth_late_registers_closed_perc	unauth_not_yet_perc	auth_religious_perc	auth_study_perc	auth_grt_perc	auth_holiday_perc	auth_excluded_perc	auth_other_perc	covid_non_compulsory_perc	pa_perc	time_identifier
202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000005	West Midlands				Primary	1594.486188	398256.4033	128551461	129828971	1277510	8578906	6101637	2477269	1756505	138407877	63664145	63318422	126982567	1568894	4966251	287817	217124	161	18007	83332	39991	476458	262085	53798	6927	67278	941211	9	813601	187611	1385387	90670	12410	1770	504724	93.80172127	6.198278729	4.408446349	1.789832381	3.58812743	0.207948425	0.587828538	1.000945199	0.135549366	0.065509277	0.156872575	0.000116323	0.013010098	0.060207556	0.028893587	0.344241968	0.008966253	18.33811149	Academic year
202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Primary	2157.392473	488388.6022	159992759	161406352	1413593	9838290	6857671	2980619	2298951	171244642	78472761	79477696	157950457	2042302	5598151	406327	214646	135	25272	108237	36786	459375	306756	91860	10772	105139	990851	75	1176139	256649	1430093	117738	8715	2432	632835	94.25483339	5.745166614	4.00460471	1.740561903	3.269095567	0.237278665	0.686817985	0.835116932	0.149872718	0.068754268	0.125344652	7.88E-05	0.014757834	0.063206065	0.021481548	0.268256568	0.00508921	16.54846248	Academic year
202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Primary	712.5856354	152789.8895	48848602	49351678	503076	3060360	2137322	923038	576351	52412038	23962957	24364127	48327084	521518	1796717	119371	30531	25	15369	41182	11454	119323	106484	64691	1113	49739	345729	11	410820	54833	425047	32338	3350	859	208041	94.16095974	5.83904026	4.077921946	1.761118314	3.428061698	0.227754929	0.783827563	0.81097209	0.104619095	0.061699566	0.058251885	4.77E-05	0.029323416	0.078573552	0.021853758	0.227663347	0.006391661	16.97943649	Academic year
202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				Primary	1560.138122	341625.8619	110651215	111880498	1229283	7218628	4870076	2348552	1365366	119099126	54315813	55131705	109447518	1203697	3908402	285880	169545	278	17807	77839	34581	370477	294106	155357	2695	83622	847986	874	960862	161669	1140514	85507	5260	1765	465788	93.93897483	6.061025167	4.089094659	1.971930508	3.281637852	0.240035347	0.806775022	0.957617439	0.13574323	0.071794817	0.142356208	0.000233419	0.014951411	0.065356483	0.029035478	0.311066095	0.004416489	17.65573731	Academic year
202223	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000007	London				Primary	1446.447514	461591.7845	146434683	148153624	1718941	9766617	7047917	2718700	2447981	157920241	71173113	72994484	144167597	2267086	5601767	387461	367321	284	6076	74701	21833	554807	269267	59637	95369	113392	1240885	28	696823	180895	1688974	152008	33609	1792	702381	93.81547486	6.184525136	4.462959881	1.721565255	3.547212798	0.245352336	0.44124996	1.069510779	0.114548331	0.096256185	0.232599062	0.000179838	0.003847512	0.047302993	0.013825334	0.351321019	0.021282262	18.80543647	Academic year

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 54 variables

Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate
auth_grt_perc	Authorised traveller absence rate

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