Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England

Absence rates - school level - autumn term

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Published 20 July 2023

Last updated 20 July 2023

Absence information for autumn term 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. Includes school level data.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England
• Release: Autumn term 2022/23
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Authorised holiday rate
  • Authorised other rate
• Filters:
  • School type
• Time period: 2016/17 Autumn term to 2022/23 Autumn term

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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	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_type	school_name	trust	estab	school_laestab	school_urn	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	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
201819	Autumn term	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	877	E06000007	Warrington	State-funded primary	Thelwall Community Junior School		2116	8772116	111000				1	168	24350	936	685	251	3.84394	2.81314	1.0308	17	10.11905	2	1.19048	490	86	0	0	0	4	z	6	99	685	220	0	31	0	251	936	z	0	2.0123203285420945	0.3531827515400411	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0164271047227926	z	0.0246406570841889	0.4065708418891170	2.8131416837782341	0.9034907597535934	0.0000000000000000	0.1273100616016427	0.0000000000000000	1.0308008213552361	3.8439425051334702	z
201920	Autumn term	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	877	E06000007	Warrington	State-funded primary	Thelwall Community Junior School		2116	8772116	111000				1	166	23882	1011	757	254	4.23331	3.16975	1.06356	18	10.84337	0	0	699	51	0	0	0	0	z	0	7	757	168	1	85	0	254	1011	z	0	2.9268905451804706	0.2135499539402060	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	z	0.0000000000000000	0.0293107779917930	3.1697512771124696	0.7034586718030316	0.0041872539988276	0.3559165899003434	0.0000000000000000	1.0635625157022025	4.2333137928146721	z
202021	Autumn term	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	877	E06000007	Warrington	State-funded primary	Thelwall Community Junior School		2116	8772116	111000				1	172	25112	751	543	208	2.9906	2.16231	0.82829	7	4.06977	1	0.5814	477	35	0	0	0	0	z	0	31	543	52	5	151	0	208	751	2384	0	1.8994902835297866	0.1393755973239885	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	z	0.0000000000000000	0.1234469576298184	2.1623128384835935	0.2070723160242115	0.0199107996177126	0.6013061484549219	0.0000000000000000	0.8282892640968461	2.9906021025804396	9.4934692577253903
202223	Autumn term	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	877	E06000007	Warrington	State-funded primary	Thelwall Community Junior School		2116	8772116	111000				1	172	23600	1225	931	294	5.19068	3.94492	1.24576	21	12.2093	1	0.5814	845	73	0	0	0	2	z	0	11	931	94	12	188	0	294	1225	0	0	3.5805084745762712	0.3093220338983051	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0084745762711864	z	0.0000000000000000	0.0466101694915254	3.9449152542372881	0.3983050847457627	0.0508474576271186	0.7966101694915254	0.0000000000000000	1.2457627118644068	5.1906779661016949	0.0000000000000000
202122	Autumn term	School	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	877	E06000007	Warrington	State-funded primary	Thelwall Community Junior School		2116	8772116	111000				1	171	24554	982	803	179	3.99935	3.27034	0.72901	14	8.18713	1	0.5848	670	44	0	0	0	0	z	0	89	803	129	0	43	7	179	982	366	0	2.7286796448643805	0.1791968722000489	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	0.0000000000000000	z	0.0000000000000000	0.3624664005864625	3.2703429176508919	0.5253726480410524	0.0000000000000000	0.1751242160136841	0.0285085933045532	0.7290054573592897	3.9993483750101816	1.4905921642094974

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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 (10% or more missed)
enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees (10% or more missed)
enrolments_pa_50_exact	Number of severely absent pupils (50% or more missed)
enrolments_pa_50_exact_percent	Percentage of severely absent pupils (50% or more missed)

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Footnotes

1. Sessions recorded as not attending due to COVID circumstances are included as possible sessions in 2020/21 and 2021/22 only, but not as an absence within absence rates.

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