Data set from Pupil attendance in schools

Pupil attendance since week commencing 12 September - daily

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Published 20 April 2023

Last updated 20 April 2023

Daily local authority, regional and national attendance since 12 September 2022, 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 13 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Afternoon sessions
  • Attendance rate
  • Authorised absence rate
• Filters:
  • Attendance Date
  • School Type
• Time period: 2022 Week 37 to 2023 Week 9

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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	reason_x_not_attending_covid_non_compulsory	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	covid_non_compulsory_perc
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E08000015	Wirral	344	12/09/2022	Primary	86	20552	52785	52800	15	2277	1525	752	470	55077	25958	26405	52363	422	1227	84	1	0	0	64	6	130	7	56	0	2	6	0	418	48	251	35	13	90	27052	95.8657879	4.134212103	2.768850881	1.365361222	2.227790185	0.152513753	0.758937488	0.45572562	0.087150716	0.063547397	0.00181564	0	0	0.116200955	0.01089384	0.23603319	0.023603319
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West	E08000001	Bolton	350	12/09/2022	Primary	85	21670	49334	49404	70	2223	1213	1010	456	51627	24292	24643	48935	399	962	106	0	0	2	42	4	94	42	18	0	0	28	0	610	57	287	56	3	97	30293	95.69411355	4.305886455	2.34954578	1.956340674	1.863366068	0.205318922	1.181552289	0.555910667	0.110407345	0.108470374	0	0	0.003873942	0.081352781	0.007747884	0.182075271	0.005810913
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber	E08000035	Leeds	383	12/09/2022	Primary	196	52135	125189	125947	758	6252	3326	2926	1359	132199	61498	62446	123944	1245	2429	303	0	2	0	59	12	481	269	42	0	0	489	0	1479	114	988	345	40	222	73890	95.27076604	4.729233958	2.515904054	2.213329904	1.837381523	0.229199918	1.118767918	0.747358149	0.086233633	0.260970204	0	0.001512871	0	0.044629687	0.009077224	0.363845415	0.030257415
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000011	Greenwich	203	12/09/2022	Primary	46	14375	37408	37639	231	1894	911	983	530	39533	18197	18704	36901	507	652	86	0	0	0	16	0	140	188	6	42	0	1	0	213	23	663	84	17	63	25494	95.20906584	4.790934156	2.304403916	2.486530241	1.649255053	0.217539777	0.538790378	1.677079908	0.058179243	0.212480712	0	0	0	0.040472517	0	0.354134521	0.043002049
2022	Week 37	Local authority	E92000001	England	E12000007	London	E09000016	Havering	311	12/09/2022	Primary	35	11320	25589	25694	105	1141	737	404	187	26835	12624	12800	25424	165	585	60	0	0	12	2	4	65	6	4	0	0	98	1	131	22	124	127	9	59	24414	95.74809018	4.251909819	2.746413266	1.505496553	2.179988821	0.223588597	0.488168437	0.4620831	0.081982486	0.47326253	0	0	0.044717719	0.007452953	0.014905906	0.24222098	0.03353829

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 54 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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