Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 11 September 2023 - daily

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Published 25 January 2024

Last updated 25 January 2024

Daily local authority, regional and national attendance since 11 September 2023, including reasons for absence. Figures are provided for state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. 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 2 2024
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • School Type
• Time period: 2023 Week 37 to 2024 Week 2

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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	attendance_date	school_type	num_schools	enrolments	present_sessions	overall_attendance	approved_educational_activity	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	total_num_schools	total_enrolments	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
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E06000064	Westmorland and Furness	943	11/09/2023	Primary	114	11640	22406	22421	15	677	430	247	125	23098	11092	11199	22291	115	315	44	0	0	0	11	0	60	15	6	0	0	0	0	184	10	45	8	121	15417	97.0690103	2.930989696	1.861633042	1.069356654	1.363754438	0.190492683	0.796605767	0.194822063	0.043293792	0.034635033	0	0	0	0.047623171	0	0.25976275
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	E10000014	Hampshire	850	11/09/2023	Primary	373	79489	152599	153294	695	4906	3700	1206	826	158200	75832	76109	151941	658	2569	357	0	0	49	149	7	569	78	28	1	4	612	0	504	168	434	100	423	105836	96.8988622	3.1011378	2.338811631	0.762326169	1.623893805	0.225663717	0.318584071	0.274336283	0.10619469	0.063211125	0	0	0.030973451	0.094184576	0.004424779	0.359671302
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E10000008	Devon	878	11/09/2023	Primary	279	45170	83305	83843	538	2681	1891	790	512	86524	41293	41600	82893	412	1290	225	0	0	24	47	10	295	141	15	0	1	396	0	219	100	375	96	310	56472	96.90143775	3.098562249	2.18552078	0.913041468	1.490915815	0.260043456	0.253108964	0.43340576	0.115574869	0.110951875	0	0	0.027737969	0.054320189	0.011557487	0.340945865
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000001	Hartlepool	805	11/09/2023	Primary	30	6645	12428	12470	42	564	264	300	105	13034	6126	6206	12332	96	216	21	0	0	0	4	2	21	17	16	0	0	25	0	184	9	91	16	30	8884	95.67285561	4.327144392	2.025471843	2.301672549	1.657204235	0.161117078	1.411692497	0.698174006	0.069050176	0.122755869	0	0	0	0.030688967	0.015344484	0.161117078
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000035	Leeds	383	11/09/2023	Primary	205	54406	101023	101521	498	4306	1955	2351	936	105827	49748	50461	100209	814	1354	225	0	0	4	33	5	334	150	38	1	2	345	0	1218	122	757	254	220	72429	95.93109509	4.068904911	1.847354645	2.221550266	1.279446644	0.212611148	1.150935017	0.715318397	0.115282489	0.240014363	0	0	0.003779754	0.031182968	0.004724692	0.315609438

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 52 variables

Variable name	Variable description
appointments_perc	Authorised appointments absence rate
approved_educational_activity	Sessions marked as approved educational activity
attendance_date	Attendance Date
attendance_perc	Attendance rate
auth_excluded_perc	Authorised exclusions absence rate

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