Data set from Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England

National - Absence (six half terms)

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Published 31 March 2022

Last updated 31 March 2022

Full-year absence (six half terms) by type of school and social care group. Data for 2019/20 is not available.

Data set details

Theme: Children's social care
Publication: Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England
Release: Reporting year 2021
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Authorised absence percentage
Number of authorised absence sessions
Number of overall absence sessions
Filters: School type
Social care group
Time period: 2016/17 to 2020/21

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	year_breakdown	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	social_care_group	school_type	t_pupils	t_sess_possible	t_sess_overall	pt_overall	t_sess_authorised	pt_sess_authorised	t_sess_unauthorised	pt_sess_unauthorised	t_pupils_pa_10_exact	pt_pupils_pa_10_exact
202021	Academic year	six half terms	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Total	7253450	2545668100	119432840	4.7	86826920	3.4	32605920	1.3	895060	12.3
202021	Academic year	six half terms	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	State-funded secondary	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
202021	Academic year	six half terms	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	State-funded primary	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
202021	Academic year	six half terms	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Special	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
202021	Academic year	six half terms	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Pupil referral unit	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x

Table showing first 5 of 12 variables
Variable name	Variable description
pt_overall	Overall absence percentage
pt_pupils_pa_10_exact	Persistent absentees percentage
pt_sess_authorised	Authorised absence percentage
pt_sess_unauthorised	Unauthorised absence percentage
school_type	School type - Filter by school type

The all pupils comparison figures taken from the national publication are produced using a different methodology based on enrolments and the school type is allocated in a different way. As a result of this, the all pupils comparison is not provided by school type as it is not appropriate to compare. More detailed information on the absence data published within this release is available in the accompanying methodology.

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