01 - Absence rates by geographic level
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Absence information for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.
National, Regional and Local Authority data from 2006/07.
School data is included from 2016/17. Primary and secondary only before 2016/17.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Pupils and schools
- Publication
- Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term
- Release
- Autumn term 2020/21
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 114,619
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Geographic levels (only available via download / public API)
- School
- Indicators
- Authorised absence rate
- Authorised holiday rate
- Authorised other rate
- Authorised reasons rate
- Excluded rate
- Extended authorised holiday rate
- Illness rate
- Late rate
- Medical appointments rate
- No reason yet rate
- Number of authorised absence sessions
- Number of authorised holiday sessions
- Number of authorised other sessions
- Number of authorised reasons sessions
- Number of excluded sessions
- Number of extended authorised holiday sessions
- Number of illness sessions
- Number of late sessions
- Number of medical appointments sessions
- Number of no reason yet sessions
- Number of overall absence sessions
- Number of overall reasons sessions
- Number of persistent absentees
- Number of pupil enrolments
- Number of religious observance sessions
- Number of schools
- Number of sessions possible
- Number of sessions recorded as exceptional circumstances
- Number of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
- Number of study leave sessions
- Number of traveller sessions
- Number of unauthorised absence sessions
- Number of unauthorised holiday sessions
- Number of unauthorised other sessions
- Number of unauthorised reasons sessions
- Overall absence rate
- Overall reasons rate
- Percentage of persistent absentees
- Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances
- Religious observance rate
- Study leave rate
- Traveller rate
- Unauthorised absence rate
- Unauthorised holiday rate
- Unauthorised other rate
- Unauthorised reasons rate
- Filters
- School type
- Time period
- 2006/07 Autumn term to 2020/21 Autumn term
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | new_la_code | la_name | school_type | estab | laestab | urn | academy_type | academy_open_date | all_through | num_schools | enrolments | sess_possible | sess_overall | sess_authorised | sess_unauthorised | sess_overall_percent | sess_authorised_percent | sess_unauthorised_percent | enrolments_PA_10_exact | enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent | sess_auth_illness | sess_auth_appointments | sess_auth_religious | sess_auth_study | sess_auth_traveller | sess_auth_holiday | sess_auth_ext_holiday | sess_auth_excluded | sess_auth_other | sess_auth_totalreasons | sess_unauth_holiday | sess_unauth_late | sess_unauth_other | sess_unauth_noyet | sess_unauth_totalreasons | sess_overall_totalreasons | sess_x_covid | sess_y_exceptional | sess_auth_illness_rate | sess_auth_appointments_rate | sess_auth_religious_rate | sess_auth_study_rate | sess_auth_traveller_rate | sess_auth_holiday_rate | sess_auth_ext_holiday_rate | sess_auth_excluded_rate | sess_auth_other_rate | sess_auth_totalreasons_rate | sess_unauth_holiday_rate | sess_unauth_late_rate | sess_unauth_other_rate | sess_unauth_noyet_rate | sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate | sess_overall_totalreasons_rate | sess_x_covid_rate |
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| 202021 | Autumn term | National | E92000001 | England | Total | 21167 | 7056748 | 955674723 | 44556759 | 31306626 | 13250133 | 4.66234 | 3.27587 | 1.38647 | 916131 | 12.98234 | 23899629 | 1808484 | 21846 | 75384 | 109650 | 138579 | z | 662482 | 4259500 | 30975554 | 1182102 | 506958 | 10792371 | 664406 | 13145837 | 44121391 | 66644507 | 4426638 | 2.500812089 | 0.189236354 | 0.002285924 | 0.00788804 | 0.011473569 | 0.014500645 | z | 0.069320867 | 0.445706044 | 3.241223531 | 0.123692923 | 0.053047129 | 1.12929334 | 0.06952219 | 1.375555582 | 4.616779113 | 6.973555478 | |||||||||||
| 202021 | Autumn term | National | E92000001 | England | Total state-funded primary and secondary | 20123 | 6942027 | 940238118 | 42923078 | 30033282 | 12889796 | 4.56513 | 3.19422 | 1.37091 | 882634 | 12.71436 | 23290502 | 1703110 | 21554 | 75205 | 108395 | 121509 | z | 644692 | 3753106 | 29718073 | 1165868 | 494590 | 10477121 | 652158 | 12789737 | 42507810 | 65144740 | 4242031 | 2.477085491 | 0.18113603 | 0.002292398 | 0.007998506 | 0.011528463 | 0.012923216 | z | 0.068566886 | 0.39916548 | 3.160696469 | 0.1239971 | 0.052602632 | 1.114305068 | 0.06936094 | 1.360265741 | 4.52096221 | 6.928536373 | |||||||||||
| 202021 | Autumn term | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded primary | 16744 | 3857391 | 527228574 | 19407998 | 13911560 | 5496438 | 3.68114 | 2.63862 | 1.04252 | 380992 | 9.87693 | 10720979 | 782297 | 13976 | 630 | 90539 | 98147 | z | 65152 | 1852452 | 13624172 | 827779 | 311856 | 4025657 | 237787 | 5403079 | 19027251 | 29073402 | 1621392 | 2.0334594 | 0.148379098 | 0.002650843 | 0.000119493 | 0.017172628 | 0.018615645 | z | 0.012357449 | 0.351356526 | 2.58411108 | 0.157005716 | 0.059150057 | 0.763550611 | 0.045101311 | 1.024807696 | 3.608918776 | 5.514382838 | |||||||||||
| 202021 | Autumn term | National | E92000001 | England | State-funded secondary | 3379 | 3084636 | 413009544 | 23515080 | 16121722 | 7393358 | 5.69359 | 3.90347 | 1.79012 | 501642 | 16.2626 | 12569523 | 920813 | 7578 | 74575 | 17856 | 23362 | z | 579540 | 1900654 | 16093901 | 338089 | 182734 | 6451464 | 414371 | 7386658 | 23480559 | 36071338 | 2620639 | 3.043397709 | 0.222951991 | 0.001834824 | 0.018056483 | 0.004323387 | 0.005656528 | z | 0.140321213 | 0.460196145 | 3.89673828 | 0.081859852 | 0.044244498 | 1.562061723 | 0.100329643 | 1.788495716 | 5.685233995 | 8.733778317 | |||||||||||
| 202021 | Autumn term | National | E92000001 | England | Special | 1044 | 114721 | 15436605 | 1633681 | 1273344 | 360337 | 10.5832 | 8.24886 | 2.3343 | 33497 | 29.19866 | 609127 | 105374 | 292 | 179 | 1255 | 17070 | z | 17790 | 506394 | 1257481 | 16234 | 12368 | 315250 | 12248 | 356100 | 1613581 | 1499767 | 184607 | 3.945990715 | 0.682624191 | 0.001891608 | 0.001159581 | 0.008130026 | 0.11058131 | z | 0.115245548 | 3.280475208 | 8.146098187 | 0.105165611 | 0.080121244 | 2.042223663 | 0.079343871 | 2.306854389 | 10.45295258 | 9.71565315 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| enrolments | Number of pupil enrolments |
| enrolments_PA_10_exact | Number of persistent absentees |
| enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent | Percentage of persistent absentees |
| num_schools | Number of schools |
| school_type | School type - Filter by school type - Total includes primary, secondary and special |
| sess_auth_appointments | Number of medical appointments sessions |
| sess_auth_appointments_rate | Medical appointments rate |
| sess_auth_excluded | Number of excluded sessions |
| sess_auth_excluded_rate | Excluded rate |
| sess_auth_ext_holiday | Number of extended authorised holiday sessions |
| sess_auth_ext_holiday_rate | Extended authorised holiday rate |
| sess_auth_holiday | Number of authorised holiday sessions |
| sess_auth_holiday_rate | Authorised holiday rate |
| sess_auth_illness | Number of illness sessions |
| sess_auth_illness_rate | Illness rate |
| sess_auth_other | Number of authorised other sessions |
| sess_auth_other_rate | Authorised other rate |
| sess_auth_religious | Number of religious observance sessions |
| sess_auth_religious_rate | Religious observance rate |
| sess_auth_study | Number of study leave sessions |
| sess_auth_study_rate | Study leave rate |
| sess_auth_totalreasons | Number of authorised reasons sessions |
| sess_auth_totalreasons_rate | Authorised reasons rate |
| sess_auth_traveller | Number of traveller sessions |
| sess_auth_traveller_rate | Traveller rate |
| sess_authorised | Number of authorised absence sessions |
| sess_authorised_percent | Authorised absence rate |
| sess_overall | Number of overall absence sessions |
| sess_overall_percent | Overall absence rate |
| sess_overall_totalreasons | Number of overall reasons sessions |
| sess_overall_totalreasons_rate | Overall reasons rate |
| sess_possible | Number of sessions possible |
| sess_unauth_holiday | Number of unauthorised holiday sessions |
| sess_unauth_holiday_rate | Unauthorised holiday rate |
| sess_unauth_late | Number of late sessions |
| sess_unauth_late_rate | Late rate |
| sess_unauth_noyet | Number of no reason yet sessions |
| sess_unauth_noyet_rate | No reason yet rate |
| sess_unauth_other | Number of unauthorised other sessions |
| sess_unauth_other_rate | Unauthorised other rate |
| sess_unauth_totalreasons | Number of unauthorised reasons sessions |
| sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate | Unauthorised reasons rate |
| sess_unauthorised | Number of unauthorised absence sessions |
| sess_unauthorised_percent | Unauthorised absence rate |
| sess_x_covid | Number of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances |
| sess_x_covid_rate | Rate of sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances |
| sess_y_exceptional | Number of sessions recorded as exceptional circumstances |
Footnotes
- Total includes state-funded primary and secondary schools. Does not include special schools. Available from 2006/07 to present (data for special schools is available from 2016/17 onwards).
- Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.
- Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions but not as an absence within absence rates.
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