Data set from School workforce in England

Teacher absences - school level

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Published 6 June 2024

Last updated 19 June 2024

Full and part time teacher vacancies, temporarily filled posts in state-funded schools in England, by sector and grade. Numbers and rates. School level.

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2023
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Average number of days taken by each teacher who took sickness absence
  • Average number of days taken in sickness absence by all teachers
  • Percentage of teachers who took sickness absence
• Filters:
  • Type of school
• Time period: 2014/15 to 2022/23

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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_laestab	school_urn	school_name	school_type	total_teachers_taking_absence	percentage_taking_absence	total_number_of_days_lost	average_number_of_days_taken	average_number_of_days_all_teachers
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3901000	108320	Bensham Grove Nursery School	LA maintained nursery and primary	1	100	2	2	2
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3901101	144352	River Tyne Academy Gateshead	Special and PRU academies	12	85.7	178.5	14.9	12.8
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902008	108321	Carr Hill Community Primary School	LA maintained nursery and primary	9	52.9	256	28.4	15.1
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902012	108323	Kelvin Grove Community Primary School	LA maintained nursery and primary	13	68.4	89.5	6.9	4.7
202223	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902036	108326	South Street Community Primary School	LA maintained nursery and primary	4	33.3	153	38.3	12.8

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
average_number_of_days_all_teachers	Average number of days taken in sickness absence by all teachers
average_number_of_days_taken	Average number of days taken by each teacher who took sickness absence
percentage_taking_absence	Percentage of teachers who took sickness absence
school_type	Type of school
total_number_of_days_lost	Total number of working days lost to sickness absence

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