Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance between 12 September and 16 December 2022 by SEN - Autumn term

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Published 10 August 2023

Last updated 10 August 2023

Autumn term local authority, regional and national attendance between 12 September and 16 December  2022, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools broken down by SEN. 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 29 2023
• Number of rows: 1,363
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised appointments absence rate
  • Authorised exclusions absence rate
  • Authorised holiday rate
  • Authorised illness absence rate
  • Authorised not attending due to covid circumstances rate
  • Authorised other absence rate
  • Authorised religious observance absence rate
  • Authorised study leave absence rate
  • Authorised traveller absence rate
  • Morning sessions
  • Overall absence rate
  • Persistent absence rate
  • Sessions marked as absence
  • Sessions marked as approved education off site
  • Sessions marked as approved educational activity
  • Sessions marked as approved educational visit or trip
  • Sessions marked as approved interview
  • Sessions marked as approved sporting activity
  • Sessions marked as approved work experience
  • Sessions marked as attending (excluding late before registers closed)
  • Sessions marked as attending (including late before registers closed)
  • Sessions marked as authorised religious observance
  • Sessions marked as authorised absence
  • Sessions marked as authorised excluded
  • Sessions marked as authorised holiday
  • Sessions marked as authorised illness
  • Sessions marked as authorised medical or dental appointments
  • Sessions marked as authorised other
  • Sessions marked as authorised study leave
  • Sessions marked as authorised traveller absence
  • Sessions marked as dual registration
  • Sessions marked as late
  • Sessions marked as late before registers closed
  • Sessions marked as no reason yet
  • Sessions marked as not attending due to covid circumstances
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised absence
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised holiday
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised late after registers closed
  • Sessions marked as unauthorised other
  • Sessions marked at attending (including approved educational activity)
  • Total possible sessions
  • Unauthorised absence rate
  • Unauthorised holiday absence rate
  • Unauthorised late absence rate
  • Unauthorised no reason yet absence rate
  • Unauthorised other absence rate
• Filters:
  • School Type
  • Special Educational Need
• Time period: 2022/23 Autumn term

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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	school_type	sen	present_sessions	approved_educational_activity	overall_attendance	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	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	academic_year
202223	Autumn term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000004	Stockton-on-Tees	808	Primary	SEN support	266915	1788	268703	21463	15746	5717	4263	290166	130211	133037	263248	3667	13407	918	0	0	0	406	162	845	94	8	0	504	1190	0	1857	596	3225	39	8	92.60319955	7.396800452	5.426548941	1.970251511	4.620458634	0.316370629	0.639978495	1.111432766	0.205399668	0.013440582	0	0	0	0.139919908	0.055830111	0.291212616	0.002757043	26.09067579	202223
202223	Autumn term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000006	East of England	E10000015	Hertfordshire	919	Secondary	No SEN	5736431	73017	5809448	447021	367028	79993	138260	6256469	2779044	2824440	5603484	132947	303140	22704	1087	5769	107	1558	5212	27430	16726	6928	212	11194	43430	1455	8832	5313	56625	9223	21	92.8550593	7.144940701	5.866376066	1.278564634	4.845224998	0.362888396	0.141165888	0.905063223	0.084920104	0.147415419	0.017374017	0.09220856	0.00171023	0.024902225	0.083305775	0.438426211	0.000335653	22.61925181	202223
202223	Autumn term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000009	Ealing	307	Secondary	SEN support	151149	2223	153372	17532	10762	6770	5882	170904	71199	74163	145362	5787	8883	669	10	16	11	10	500	663	1364	1262	19	79	761	0	339	95	6136	200	0	89.74160932	10.25839068	6.297102467	3.961288209	5.197654824	0.39144783	0.198356972	3.590319712	0.055586762	0.117024762	0.005851238	0.009361981	0.006436362	0.005851238	0.292561906	0.387937087	0	32.0055905	202223
202223	Autumn term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000017	Doncaster	371	Primary	EHC plan	48966	889	49855	6196	4484	1712	1100	56051	23595	24460	48055	911	3089	489	6	0	0	52	233	615	605	594	5	5	274	0	423	189	1049	51	0	88.94578152	11.05421848	7.999857273	3.054361207	5.511052434	0.872419761	0.754669854	1.871509875	0.337192914	0.090988564	0.010704537	0	0	0.092772653	0.415692851	1.097215036	0	40	202223
202223	Autumn term	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	E10000011	East Sussex	845	Primary	SEN support	545103	3328	548431	53624	40351	13273	10539	602055	264297	272124	536421	8682	32219	2266	25	0	24	274	650	4864	727	1855	34	317	2250	0	2163	1857	8911	342	29	91.09317255	8.906827449	6.702211592	2.204615857	5.351504431	0.376377573	0.359269502	1.480097333	0.308443581	0.056805441	0.004152445	0	0.003986347	0.045510792	0.107963558	0.807899611	0.004816836	29.84926616	202223

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 51 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
auth_holiday_perc	Authorised holiday rate
auth_other_perc	Authorised other absence rate
auth_religious_perc	Authorised religious observance absence rate
auth_study_perc	Authorised study leave absence rate
authorised_absence	Sessions marked as authorised absence
authorised_absence_perc	Authorised absence rate
covid_non_compulsory_perc	Authorised not attending due to covid circumstances rate
illness_perc	Authorised illness absence rate
late_sessions	Sessions marked as late
overall_absence	Sessions marked as absence
overall_absence_perc	Overall absence rate
overall_attendance	Sessions marked at attending (including approved educational activity)
pa_perc	Persistent absence rate
possible_sessions	Total possible sessions
present_sessions	Sessions marked as attending (including late before registers closed)
reason_b_aea_education_off_site	Sessions marked as approved education off site
reason_c_authorised_other	Sessions marked as authorised other
reason_d_aea_dual_registration	Sessions marked as dual registration
reason_e_authorised_excluded	Sessions marked as authorised excluded
reason_g_unauthorised_holiday	Sessions marked as unauthorised holiday
reason_h_authorised_holiday	Sessions marked as authorised holiday
reason_i_authorised_illness	Sessions marked as authorised illness
reason_j_aea_interview	Sessions marked as approved interview
reason_l_present_late_before_registers_closed	Sessions marked as late before registers closed
reason_m_authorised_medical_dental	Sessions marked as authorised medical or dental appointments
reason_n_no_reason_yet	Sessions marked as no reason yet
reason_o_other_unauthorised	Sessions marked as unauthorised other
reason_p_aea_approved_sporting_activity	Sessions marked as approved sporting activity
reason_present	Sessions marked as attending (excluding late before registers closed)
reason_present_am	Morning sessions
reason_present_pm	Afternoon sessions
reason_r_authorised_religious_observance	Sessions marked as authorised religious observance
reason_s_authorised_study_leave	Sessions marked as authorised study leave
reason_t_authorised_grt_absence	Sessions marked as authorised traveller absence
reason_u_unauthorised_late_after_registers_closed	Sessions marked as unauthorised late after registers closed
reason_v_aea_educational_visit_trip	Sessions marked as approved educational visit or trip
reason_w_aea_work_experience	Sessions marked as approved work experience
reason_x_not_attending_covid_non_compulsory	Sessions marked as not attending due to covid circumstances
school_type	School Type
sen	Special Educational Need
unauth_hol_perc	Unauthorised holiday absence rate
unauth_late_registers_closed_perc	Unauthorised late absence rate
unauth_not_yet_perc	Unauthorised no reason yet absence rate
unauth_oth_perc	Unauthorised other absence rate
unauthorised_absence	Sessions marked as unauthorised absence
unauthorised_absence_perc	Unauthorised absence rate

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Footnotes

1. At local authority level, due to data only being representative of those schools currently participating in daily data sharing, it is possible there will be differences between absence rates presented here and in the termly school census based absence publication.
2. For pupils in special schools, there are a very small number of enrolments with No SEN or on SEN support and care should be taken when using these figures in particular. As there is a difference in timeliness between this publication and data produced from the school census, it is possible there will be differences between the absence rates presented here and in the census absence publication.

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