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 25 March 2021

Last updated 25 March 2021

Absence by type of school and social care group, 2016/17 to 2018/19

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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 2020
• Number of rows: 171
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Authorised absence percentage
  • Number of authorised absence sessions
  • Number of overall absence sessions
  • Number of persistent absentees
  • Number of sessions possible
  • Number of unauthorised absence sessions
  • Overall absence percentage
  • Persistent absentees percentage
  • Total number of pupils or enrolments
  • Unauthorised absence percentage
• Filters:
  • School type
  • Social care group
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2018/19

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	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
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Total	7145070	2530360000	122050720	4.8	85118090	3.4	36932630	1.5	801040	11.2
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	State-funded secondary	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	State-funded primary	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Special	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:
201819	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	All pupils comparison	Pupil referral unit	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:	:

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 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
social_care_group	Social care group - Filter by social care group
t_pupils	Total number of pupils or enrolments
t_pupils_pa_10_exact	Number of persistent absentees
t_sess_authorised	Number of authorised absence sessions
t_sess_overall	Number of overall absence sessions
t_sess_possible	Number of sessions possible
t_sess_unauthorised	Number of unauthorised absence sessions

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Footnotes

1. 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 document.

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Contact name: Bree Waine

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