Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 11 September 2023 - daily

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Published 11 July 2024

Last updated 11 July 2024

Daily local authority, regional and national attendance since 11 September 2023, 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 26 2024
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • School Type
• Time period: 2023 Week 37 to 2024 Week 9

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	new_la_code	la_name	old_la_code	attendance_date	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	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
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E06000064	Westmorland and Furness	943	11/09/2023	Primary	117	11961	23003	23020	17	697	445	252	135	23717	11379	11503	22882	121	326	46	0	0	0	11	0	62	17	4	0	0	0	0	184	14	49	5	121	15393	97.06117974	2.938820256	1.876291268	1.062528988	1.374541468	0.193953704	0.775814816	0.206602859	0.059029388	0.021081924	0	0	0	0.046380234	0	0.261415862
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	E10000014	Hampshire	850	11/09/2023	Primary	399	85537	163666	164744	1078	5178	3942	1236	872	169922	81330	81633	162963	703	2724	371	0	0	51	155	8	633	85	30	1	14	978	0	516	169	456	95	421	105418	96.95271948	3.047280517	2.319887949	0.727392568	1.603088476	0.218335472	0.303668742	0.268358423	0.099457398	0.055908005	0	0	0.030013771	0.091218324	0.004708043	0.372523864
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E10000008	Devon	878	11/09/2023	Primary	298	47331	86260	86854	594	2793	1978	815	550	89647	42740	43079	85819	441	1342	237	0	0	24	49	10	316	77	15	0	1	516	0	241	109	387	78	308	54462	96.88444677	3.115553225	2.206431894	0.909121331	1.49698261	0.264370252	0.268832197	0.431693197	0.121588006	0.087007931	0	0	0.026771671	0.054658829	0.011154863	0.35249367
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000001	Hartlepool	805	11/09/2023	Primary	31	6739	12434	12476	42	565	265	300	104	13041	6130	6209	12339	95	216	21	0	0	0	4	2	22	17	16	0	0	25	0	184	9	95	12	30	8486	95.66751016	4.33248984	2.032052757	2.300437083	1.6563147	0.161030596	1.410934744	0.728471743	0.069013112	0.092017483	0	0	0	0.030672494	0.015336247	0.168698719
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000035	Leeds	383	11/09/2023	Primary	220	58336	109042	109566	524	4593	2129	2464	1001	114159	53690	54480	108170	872	1484	241	0	0	4	35	6	359	150	44	1	2	371	0	1254	129	829	252	222	71208	95.97666413	4.023335874	1.864942755	2.158393118	1.29994131	0.211109067	1.098467926	0.726180152	0.113000289	0.220744751	0	0	0.003503885	0.030658993	0.005255827	0.314473673

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 52 variables

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

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