Data set from Pupil absence in schools in England

Absence by pupil residency - IDACI and urban or rurality

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Published 20 March 2025

Last updated 7 April 2025

Absence information by the pupil’s residence including the level of deprivation and rurality.

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Data set details

• Theme: Pupils and schools
• Publication: Pupil absence in schools in England
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: Local authority, Local authority district, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Authorised absence rate
  • Number of authorised absence sessions
  • Number of overall absence sessions
• Filters:
  • IDACI band of pupil residence
  • IDACI/Rurality
  • Rurality band of pupil residence
• Time period: 2016/17 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_identifier	absence_terms	time_period	geographic_level	country_name	country_code	region_code	region_name	lad_code	lad_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	measure	education_phase	pup_rurality	pup_idaci	enrolments	sess_possible	sess_overall	sess_overall_percent	sess_authorised	sess_authorised_percent	sess_unauthorised	sess_unauthorised_percent	enrolments_pa_10_exact	enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent
Academic year	Six half terms	202324	National	England	E92000001								Total	Total	Total	Total	7453730	2620428796	187334908	7.14902	122518525	4.67551	64816383	2.4735	1487022	19.95004
Academic year	Six half terms	202324	National	England	E92000001								Total	State-funded primary	Total	Total	3949827	1416729763	78298118	5.52668	55143023	3.89228	23155095	1.6344	575032	14.55841
Academic year	Six half terms	202324	National	England	E92000001								Total	State-funded secondary	Total	Total	3364185	1154265758	102604511	8.88916	62579611	5.42159	40024900	3.46756	860003	25.56349
Academic year	Six half terms	202324	National	England	E92000001								Total	Special	Total	Total	139718	49433275	6432279	13.01204	4795891	9.70175	1636388	3.3103	51987	37.20852
Academic year	Six half terms	202324	National	England	E92000001								IDACI	Total	Total	0 - 10 % most deprived	978847	339807456	30858962	9.08131	16532957	4.86539	14326005	4.21592	270855	27.67082

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 14 variables

Variable name	Variable description
education_phase	School type - Filter by school type
enrolments	Number of pupil enrolments
enrolments_pa_10_exact	Number of persistent absentees
enrolments_pa_10_exact_percent	Percentage of persistent absentees
measure	IDACI/Rurality

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Footnotes

1. Total includes state-funded primary, secondary and special schools. Data for special schools is available from 2016/17 to present.
2. 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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