Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England

Absence by geographic level

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Published 26 March 2020

Last updated 26 March 2020

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England
• Release: Academic year 2016/17
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Number of authorised absence sessions
• Filters:
  • School type
• Time period: 2006/07 to 2016/17

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

year_breakdown	time_identifier	time_period	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	estab	laestab	urn	school_type	academy_type	academy_open_date	all_through	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	sess_possible_pa_10_exact	sess_overall_pa_10_exact	sess_authorised_pa_10_exact	sess_unauthorised_pa_10_exact	sess_overall_percent_pa_10_exact	sess_authorised_percent_pa_10_exact	sess_unauthorised_percent_pa_10_exact	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
six half terms	Academic year	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London				Total	Total	Total	Total	1	179	66500	1694	1621	73	2.5	2.4	0.1	5	2.8	1542	205	180	25	13.3	11.7	1.6	1198	63	128	0	0	8	.	7	217	1621	8	0	48	17	73	1694
six half terms	Academic year	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London				State-funded primary	Total	Total	Total	1	179	66500	1694	1621	73	2.5	2.4	0.1	5	2.8	1542	205	180	25	13.3	11.7	1.6	1198	63	128	0	0	8	.	7	217	1621	8	0	48	17	73	1694
six half terms	Academic year	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden				Total	Total	Total	Total	55	18412	6499469	328912	248648	80264	5.1	3.8	1.2	2287	12.4	739864	124451	79509	44942	16.8	10.7	6.1	180401	24281	14700	126	85	6345	.	5835	16875	248648	12692	4890	52674	10008	80264	328912
six half terms	Academic year	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden				State-funded primary	Total	Total	Total	42	9937	3564402	154750	123825	30925	4.3	3.5	0.9	952	9.6	306393	45202	32682	12520	14.8	10.7	4.1	92469	10373	7954	3	10	4796	.	545	7675	123825	7934	3934	15906	3151	30925	154750
six half terms	Academic year	201617	Local authority	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden				State-funded secondary	Total	Total	Total	10	8226	2847921	163334	117045	46289	5.7	4.1	1.6	1238	15	400580	70973	41307	29666	17.7	10.3	7.4	82994	12462	6548	123	75	1318	.	5163	8362	117045	4612	675	34328	6674	46289	163334

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 35 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
num_schools	Number of schools
school_type	School type - Filter by school type

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Footnotes

1. Absence rates are the number of absence sessions expressed as a percentage of the total number of possible sessions.
2. Pupil enrolments missing 10 percent or more of their own possible sessions (due to authorised or unauthorised absence) are classified as persistent absentees.
3. x - 1 or 2 enrolments, or a percentage based on 1 or 2 enrolments.
4. State-funded secondary schools include city technology colleges and all secondary academies, including all-through academies and free schools.
5. Number of enrolments includes pupils on the school roll for at least one session who are aged between 5 and 15, excluding boarders. Some pupils may be counted more than once (if they moved schools during the academic year or are registered in more than one school).
6. Special schools include maintained special schools, non-maintained special schools and special academies. Excludes general hospital schools, independent special schools and independent schools approved for SEN pupils.
7. Includes all schools with at least six enrolments who reported absence information via the school census for the associated academic year.
8. There may be discrepancies between totals and the sum of constituent parts as national and regional totals and totals across school types have been rounded to the nearest 5.
9. The persistent absentee rate is the number of persistent absentees expressed as a percentage of the total number of enrolments.
10. The definition of persistent absence changed from the 2015/16 academic year - The information presented for years prior to 2015/16 has been produced using the same methodology in order to allow users to make comparisons on a consistent basis over time.
11. State-funded primary schools include all primary academies, including free schools.

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