Data set from Education, children’s social care and offending: local authority level dashboard

Persistent absence by offending and pupil groups at local authority and national level

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Published 30 March 2023

Last updated 30 March 2023

Persistent absence by offending and pupil groups at local authority and national level, for all pupils matched to KS4 academic year 2012/13 - 2017/18. 

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Education, children’s social care and offending: local authority level dashboard
• Release: Academic year 2019/20
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National
• Indicators:
  • Number of children with specified absence reason by offending and pupil group
  • Percentage of children with specified absence reason by offending and pupil group
  • Percentage of children with specified absence reason that also offend
• Filters:
  • indicator
  • Offending or pupil group
  • Persistent absence reason
• Time period: 2019/20

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	indicator	pupil_group	absence_type	count_with_absence	perc_with_absence	perc_with_absence_that_offend
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001						School	All Pupils	Any persistent absence	1425351	45	z
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001						School	All Pupils	Unauthorised absence not covered by any other code/description	228199	7.2	z
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001						School	All Pupils	Exclusion with no alternative provision made	35993	1.1	z
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001						School	All Pupils	Other authorised circumstances	85913	2.7	z
201920	Academic year	National	England	E92000001						School	All Pupils	Agreed extended family holiday	6169	0.2	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
absence_type	Persistent absence reason
count_with_absence	Number of children with specified absence reason by offending and pupil group
indicator	indicator
perc_with_absence	Percentage of children with specified absence reason by offending and pupil group
perc_with_absence_that_offend	Percentage of children with specified absence reason that also offend

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