Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England

06 (termly) - Absence rates by pupil characteristic - Termly data

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Published 24 March 2022

Last updated 24 March 2022

Absence information at national level for the full academic year, by each term, by pupil characteristics including SEN, FSM, language, year group, gender and ethnicity for England. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised absence rate exact
  • Number of authorised absence sessions
• Filters:
  • Characteristic
  • School type
• Time period: 2018/19 Autumn term to 2020/21 Summer term

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	school_type	characteristic	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_possible_pa_10_exact	sess_overall_pa_10_exact	sess_authorised_pa_10_exact	sess_unauthorised_pa_10_exact	sess_overall_percent_pa_10_exact	sess_authorised_percent_pa_10_exact	sess_unauthorised_percent_pa_10_exact	sess_auth_illness	sess_auth_appointments	sess_auth_religious	sess_auth_study	sess_auth_traveller	sess_auth_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_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	sess_y_exceptional_rate
201819	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	State-funded secondary	Ethnicity Minor Any other Mixed background	58413	8052495	380601	263051	117550	4.7265	3.2667	1.4598	7214	12.08881	954804	194668	111423	83245	20.38826817	11.66972489	8.718543282	195298	25272	794	632	43	2896	12236	25300	262471	18875	5888	86237	6258	117258	379729	0	0	2.425310416	0.313840617	0.009860298	0.007848499	0.000533996	0.035964009	0.151952904	0.314188335	3.259499075	0.2343994	0.073120194	1.070935157	0.077715044	1.456169796	4.71566887	0	0
201819	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	Special	Ethnicity Minor Bangladeshi	1739	244579	23786	20503	3283	9.72528	8.38298	1.34231	526	29.73431	72809	17565	14840	2725	24.1247648	20.38209562	3.742669176	13341	3041	24	4	0	857	51	2542	19860	596	376	2029	113	3114	22974	0	0	5.454679265	1.243361041	0.00981278	0.001635463	0	0.350398031	0.020852158	1.039336983	8.120075722	0.243684045	0.153733558	0.829588804	0.046201841	1.273208248	9.39328397	0	0
201819	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	State-funded secondary	Ethnicity Minor Black African	113048	15569700	400094	277360	122734	2.5697	1.78141	0.78829	5799	5.02578	721591	134014	76872	57142	18.57201656	10.65312622	7.918890341	190586	36476	454	1077	11	3538	19322	25139	276603	27133	6792	77516	10927	122368	398971	0	0	1.224082673	0.234275548	0.00291592	0.006917282	7.07E-05	0.022723623	0.124100015	0.161461043	1.776546754	0.174267969	0.043623191	0.497864442	0.070181185	0.785936787	2.562483542	0	0
201819	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	Special	Ethnicity Minor Chinese	322	45643	2181	1961	220	4.77839	4.29639	0.482	45	13.51351	6347	1255	1105	150	19.77312116	17.40979991	2.363321254	1210	400	2	0	0	113	0	233	1958	44	28	95	53	220	2178	0	0	2.651008917	0.876366584	0.004381833	0	0	0.24757356	0	0.510483535	4.289814429	0.096400324	0.061345661	0.208137064	0.116118572	0.482001621	4.771816051	0	0
201819	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	State-funded secondary	Ethnicity Minor Gypsy Roma	8708	1131339	152274	61148	91126	13.45963	5.40492	8.0547	3840	42.41219	486723	124622	45870	78752	25.60429649	9.424251576	16.18004491	34106	4525	32	7	3496	368	8211	10269	61014	9410	1538	76639	3406	90993	152007	0	0	3.014657852	0.399968533	0.002828507	0.000618736	0.309014363	0.032527828	0.725777154	0.907685495	5.393078467	0.831757767	0.135945106	6.77418528	0.301059187	8.042947339	13.43602581	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 53 variables

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic	Characteristic - Filter by characteristic
enrolments	Number of pupil enrolments
enrolments_pa_10_exact	Number of persistent absentees
enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees
school_type	School type - Filter by school type - Total includes primary, secondary and special

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Footnotes

1. Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.
2. Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions in 2020/21 only, but not as an absence within absence rates.

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