Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term

01 - Absence rates by school and geographic level

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Published 26 May 2022

Last updated 26 May 2022

Absence information for all enrolments in state-funded primary, secondary and special schools including information on overall absence, persistent absence and reason for absence for pupils aged 5-15.

National, Regional and Local Authority data from 2006/07.

School data is included from 2016/17. Primary and secondary only before 2016/17.

Data set details

Theme: Pupils and schools
Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England: autumn term
Release: Autumn term 2021/22
Release type
Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
Indicators: Authorised absence rate
Authorised holiday rate
Authorised other rate
Filters: School type
Time period: 2006/07 Autumn term to 2021/22 Autumn term

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	school_type	num_schools	enrolments	sess_possible	sess_overall	sess_authorised	sess_unauthorised	sess_overall_percent	sess_authorised_percent	sess_unauthorised_percent	enrolments_pa_10_exact	enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	enrolments_pa_50_exact	enrolments_pa_50_exact_percent	sess_auth_illness	sess_auth_appointments	sess_auth_religious	sess_auth_study	sess_auth_traveller	sess_auth_holiday	sess_auth_ext_holiday	sess_auth_excluded	sess_auth_other	sess_auth_totalreasons	sess_unauth_holiday	sess_unauth_late	sess_unauth_other	sess_unauth_noyet	sess_unauth_totalreasons	sess_overall_totalreasons	sess_x_covid	sess_y_exceptional	sess_auth_illness_rate	sess_auth_appointments_rate	sess_auth_religious_rate	sess_auth_study_rate	sess_auth_traveller_rate	sess_auth_holiday_rate	sess_auth_ext_holiday_rate	sess_auth_excluded_rate	sess_auth_other_rate	sess_auth_totalreasons_rate	sess_unauth_holiday_rate	sess_unauth_late_rate	sess_unauth_other_rate	sess_unauth_noyet_rate	sess_unauth_totalreasons_rate	sess_overall_totalreasons_rate	sess_x_covid_rate
202122	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	Total	21223	7124905	961005533	66299987	50978842	15321145	6.89902	5.30474	1.59428	1672179	23.46949	97994	1.37537	42031357	2477158	87713	77771	74702	356656	z	780771	4392322	50278450	2413454	852499	11278743	625241	15169937	65448387	15570635	5572368	4.373685224	0.257767298	0.009127211	0.008092669	0.007773316	0.037112794	z	0.081245214	0.457054809	5.231858535	0.251138408	0.088709063	1.173639757	0.065061124	1.578548352	6.810406887	1.620244053
202122	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	Total state-funded primary and secondary	20165	7003676	944644699	64211691	49303837	14907854	6.79744	5.2193	1.57814	1624473	23.19458	91372	1.30463	41048878	2328869	86891	77486	73699	323238	z	760003	3925154	48624218	2386586	832399	10934152	610089	14763226	63387444	15125847	5419344	4.345430408	0.246533856	0.009198273	0.008202661	0.007801769	0.034217945	z	0.080453847	0.415516437	5.147355196	0.252643772	0.088117681	1.157488314	0.064583965	1.562833732	6.710188928	1.601220757
202122	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	State-funded primary	16762	3847758	525567244	30023843	23932031	6091812	5.71265	4.55356	1.15909	750194	19.49691	24176	0.62831	20033234	1016659	54177	731	53268	257305	z	77962	1836113	23329449	1716649	493059	3544485	200444	5954637	29284086	8222457	573308	3.811735649	0.193440328	0.010308291	0.000139088	0.010135335	0.048957579	z	0.014833877	0.34935834	4.438908487	0.326627852	0.093814637	0.674411322	0.038138602	1.132992413	5.5719009	1.564491907
202122	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	State-funded secondary	3403	3155918	419077455	34187848	25371806	8816042	8.15788	6.0542	2.10368	874279	27.70284	67196	2.12921	21015644	1312210	32714	76755	20431	65933	z	682041	2089041	25294769	669937	339340	7389667	409645	8808589	34103358	6903390	4846036	5.014739817	0.313118729	0.007806194	0.01831523	0.004875232	0.015732891	z	0.162748197	0.498485656	6.035821946	0.159859948	0.080973098	1.763317714	0.097749233	2.101899994	8.13772194	1.647282601
202122	Autumn term	National	E92000001	England	Special	1058	121229	16360834	2088296	1675005	413291	12.764	10.2379	2.5261	47706	39.35197	6622	5.46239	982479	148289	822	285	1003	33418	z	20768	467168	1654232	26868	20100	344591	15152	406711	2060943	444788	153024	6.005066734	0.906365776	0.005024194	0.001741965	0.006130494	0.204256091	z	0.126937294	2.855404559	10.11092711	0.164221457	0.122854373	2.106194586	0.092611416	2.485881832	12.59680894	2.718614467

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 49 variables
Variable name	Variable description
enrolments	Number of pupil enrolments
enrolments_pa_10_exact	Number of persistent absentees
enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees
enrolments_pa_50_exact	Number of persistent absentees (50% or more missed)
enrolments_pa_50_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees (50% or more missed)

Footnotes

Total includes state-funded primary and secondary schools. Does not include special schools. Available from 2006/07 to present (data for special schools is available from 2016/17 onwards).
Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.

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