Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 11 September 2023 - daily

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Published 8 February 2024

Last updated 8 February 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 4 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 4

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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	11643	22413	22428	15	677	430	247	125	23105	11092	11206	22298	115	315	44	0	0	0	11	0	60	15	6	0	0	0	0	184	10	45	8	121	15417	97.06989829	2.93010171	1.861069033	1.069032677	1.363341268	0.190434971	0.796364423	0.194763038	0.043280675	0.03462454	0	0	0	0.047608743	0	0.259684051
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000008	South East	E10000014	Hampshire	850	11/09/2023	Primary	374	79669	152928	153623	695	4910	3704	1206	829	158533	75994	76273	152267	661	2569	357	0	0	49	149	7	573	78	28	1	4	612	0	504	168	434	100	423	105836	96.90285303	3.097146966	2.33642207	0.760724896	1.620482802	0.225189708	0.317914882	0.273760037	0.105971627	0.06307835	0	0	0.030908391	0.093986741	0.004415484	0.361438943
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000009	South West	E10000008	Devon	878	11/09/2023	Primary	279	45235	83309	83845	536	2685	1897	788	515	86530	41295	41602	82897	412	1292	225	0	0	24	47	10	299	139	15	0	1	396	0	219	103	377	89	309	55847	96.89702993	3.102970068	2.192303247	0.910666821	1.493123772	0.260025425	0.253091413	0.435687045	0.119033861	0.102854501	0	0	0.027736045	0.054316422	0.011556686	0.345544898
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	E06000001	Hartlepool	805	11/09/2023	Primary	30	6653	12428	12470	42	565	265	300	104	13035	6127	6206	12333	95	216	21	0	0	0	4	2	22	17	16	0	0	25	0	184	9	93	14	30	8884	95.66551592	4.334484081	2.032988109	2.301495972	1.6570771	0.161104718	1.411584196	0.713463751	0.069044879	0.107403145	0	0	0	0.030686613	0.015343306	0.168776371
2023	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000035	Leeds	383	11/09/2023	Primary	206	54818	101710	102206	496	4327	1965	2362	939	106533	50091	50805	100896	814	1359	227	0	0	4	33	5	337	147	40	1	2	346	0	1218	125	765	254	221	72429	95.93834774	4.061652258	1.844498888	2.21715337	1.275661063	0.213079515	1.143307707	0.718087353	0.117334535	0.238423775	0	0	0.003754705	0.030976317	0.004693381	0.316333906

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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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