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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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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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    • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

      File name

      Adr S Data Sourcing Attendance And Absence Metadata

      Type

      .XLSX

      File name

      Adr Scotland Data Explained Educational Exclusions And Absences

      Type

      .PDF

      File name

      Adr S Data Sourcing Attendance And Absence Update 2024 Nrs Indexing Report Aug 2024

      Type

      .PDF

  • Is part of
    • School education statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

Coverage

Spatial

  • Spatial coverage

    Scotland

  • Geographic levels
    council area

Temporal

  • Start date
    15/09/2007
  • End date
    15/09/2022
  • Frequency
    Irregular
  • Distribution release date
    21/06/2023

Provenance

  • Purpose
    Administrative
  • Source
    Electronic survey
  • Collection situation
    Local authority

Access and governance

  • Conditions of access
    Access needs approval

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Usage

  • Conditions of use
    Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
  • Resource creator
    Scottish Government
  • Is referenced by
    Not available

Access

Format and standards

  • Language
    English
  • Format
    Csv

Enrichment and linkage

Synthetic data

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