File name
Attendance And Absence Indexing Report
Attendance and Absence linkage data - Scotland
Summary
Abstract
Attendance, authorised and unauthorised absence and temporary exclusions of children attending publicly funded local authority schools and one grant-aided mainstream school in Scotland.
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Contact point
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Digital object identifier (DOI)Not available
Keywords
ADR Scotland
Administrative Data Research
Absence
Administrative
Attendance
Children
Education
Publicly funded schools
Publisher
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Identifier
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NameScottish Government
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Description
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Contact point
Documentation
Description
Attendance, authorised and unauthorised absence and temporary exclusions, from the Attendance and Absence survey in publicly funded (local authority and mainstream grant-aided) schools in Scotland. Data is collected by Local Authorities as part of the Attendance and Exclusions survey and uploaded to Scottish Government.
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Associated media
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Available resource files can be downloaded below.
.PDF
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Attendance And Absence Data Dictionary
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.XLSX
File name
Data Dictionary Attendance And Absence Linkage Data Scotland%401.0.13
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.XLSX
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Is part of
- School education statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
Coverage
Spatial
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Spatial coverage
Scotland
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Geographic levelscouncil area
Temporal
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Start date15/09/2007
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End date15/09/2025
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FrequencyIrregular
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Distribution release date15/06/2026
Provenance
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PurposeAdministrative
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SourceElectronic survey
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Collection situationLocal authority
Access and governance
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Conditions of accessAccess needs approval
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Usage
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Conditions of useApplication of Statistical Disclosure Control
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Resource creatorScottish Government
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Is referenced byNot available
Access
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Access rights
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Access serviceAccess to this data is through submitting a completed application form to the mailbox: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot. The application form is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-statistics-request-our-data/, Find out about accessing secure datasets for research at https://www.researchdata.scot/accessing-data/data-access-overview/
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JurisdictionGB-SCT
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Data controllerScottish Government
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Data processorNot applicable
Format and standards
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LanguageEnglish
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FormatCsv
Enrichment and linkage
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Related datasets
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Linkage opportunityThese datasets have been created through the ADR Scotland programme to enable linkage by using the National Records of Scotland population spine. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/nrs-indexing/
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Tools
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Synthetic data
Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset.
Data Dictionary
SEED_CODE
Publically available school identifier.
TERM
School academic term
CODE
Attendance Code
HALF_DAYS
Number of halfday absences due to reason given in 'Code' variable.
LA_CODE
Publically available local authority identifier
STUDENT_STAGE
Student stage in school career - for example primary 7 (P7)
STUDENT_STATUS
Description of pupil status on school roll
SEX
Gender of student
REPORTED_ETHNIC
Reported ethnic background of student
REPORTED_NATIONAL
Reported national identity of student
| Variable Name | Variable Description | Data type | |
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| seed_code | Publically available school identifier. | ||
| term | School academic term | ||
| code | Attendance Code | ||
| half_days | Number of halfday absences due to reason given in 'Code' variable. | ||
| la_code | Publically available local authority identifier | ||
| student_stage | Student stage in school career - for example primary 7 (P7) | ||
| student_status | Description of pupil status on school roll | ||
| sex | Gender of student | ||
| reported_ethnic | Reported ethnic background of student | ||
| reported_national | Reported national identity of student |