Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 12 September - daily

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Published 4 May 2023

Last updated 4 May 2023

Daily 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 16 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • School Type
• Time period: 2022 Week 37 to 2023 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	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
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000001	Hartlepool	805	12/09/2022	Primary	27	5911	17139	17183	44	889	507	382	130	18072	8469	8544	17013	126	417	28	0	0	0	6	0	44	44	40	0	0	0	0	273	4	97	8	12	30	8392	95.08078796	4.919212041	2.805444887	2.113767154	2.307436919	0.154935812	1.51062417	0.536741921	0.022133687	0.044267375	0	0	0	0.033200531	0	0.243470562	0.066401062
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000011	Greenwich	203	12/09/2022	Primary	47	14997	39985	40218	233	2008	970	1038	554	42226	19462	19995	39457	528	693	91	0	0	0	16	0	153	190	8	42	0	1	0	217	26	711	84	17	63	25494	95.24463601	4.755363994	2.297162885	2.458201108	1.641168948	0.215507034	0.513901388	1.683796713	0.061573438	0.198929569	0	0	0	0.037891347	0	0.362336002	0.040259556
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000006	East of England	E06000056	Central Bedfordshire	823	12/09/2022	Primary	86	15532	44110	44130	20	1782	1390	392	172	45912	21941	22038	43979	131	984	125	0	0	32	18	0	229	20	100	0	0	0	0	130	41	201	20	2	96	23141	96.11866179	3.881338212	3.027530929	0.853807283	2.143230528	0.272259976	0.283150375	0.437794041	0.089301272	0.043561596	0	0	0.069698554	0.039205436	0	0.498780275	0.00435616
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E06000023	Bristol, City of	801	12/09/2022	Primary	95	27666	72108	72180	72	4341	2687	1654	894	76521	35280	36086	71366	742	1991	201	2	0	0	50	3	396	59	28	1	2	10	0	521	152	796	185	44	104	35689	94.32704748	5.672952523	3.511454372	2.161498151	2.601900132	0.262672992	0.680858849	1.04023732	0.198638282	0.241763699	0.002613662	0	0	0.06534154	0.003920492	0.517504999	0.057500555
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000017	Hillingdon	312	12/09/2022	Primary	57	19892	47054	47072	18	2625	1720	905	524	49697	23040	23513	46553	501	1186	123	0	0	8	14	3	307	16	4	0	0	2	0	237	23	475	170	79	67	29331	94.71799103	5.282008974	3.460973499	1.821035475	2.386461959	0.247499849	0.476889953	0.9557921	0.04628046	0.342072962	0	0	0.016097551	0.028170715	0.006036582	0.617743526	0.158963318

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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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