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Term-time holidays: Where most children were absent
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Term-time holidays: Where most children were absent
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/school-absence
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2017-03-27T10:02:45.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-03-27T10:46:01.000Z (about 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:12.265Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: absence, education, schools
- Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39380529
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# Term-time holidays: Where most children were absent
In March 2017 we [reported](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39380529) on new government figures showing that term-time holidays accounted for a quarter of unauthorised absences from schools in England.
# Get the data
* Department for Education: [Pupil absence in schools in England: 2015 to 2016](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england-2015-to-2016) - [Underlying data (zip)](https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/602371/SFR14_2017_Underlying_data.zip)
* Subset and analysis: [2015-16 figures by local authority for all schools / average rates by region / regions with rates and local authorities](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-absence/blob/master/unauthorisedabsences.xlsx)
* Subset: [2015-16 absence figures by local authority for all schools (CSV)](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-absence/blob/master/201516_absences_by_LA.csv) ([raw](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-absence/master/201516_absences_by_LA.csv))
* Subse: [2013-16 absence figures by local authority for all schools (CSV)](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-absence/blob/master/201316_absences_by_LA.csv)
# Visualisation and interactivity
* Bar chart: Areas with biggest percentage rise in term-time holidays
* Infographic: Unauthorised absences
* Bar chart: Areas with holidays as the highest share of absence
* [Interactive map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region](https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Unauthorisedholidaysperpupilratesbyregion/Dashboard1#!/publish-confirm)
* Unpublished: [Carto version of map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region](https://paulbradshaw.carto.com/viz/618045be-10d0-11e7-b4bb-0e98b61680bf/public_map)
* Unpublished: [Fusion Tables version of map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by region](https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col8%3E%3E0+from+1jc7KQC1AlI4c-bL9dzU3BSgqxoAvVfRPceS5Yle6+where+col0%3E%3E0+contains+ignoring+case+'E'&viz=MAP&h=false&lat=52.89178377857177&lng=2.902375523437513&t=1&z=6&l=col8%3E%3E0&y=2&tmplt=2&hml=KML)
* Unpublished: [Interactive map: Unauthorised holiday sessions per pupil rates by local authority](https://public.tableau.com/profile/publish/Localauthorityunauthorisedholidaysessionsperpupil201516/Localauthorityunauthorisedholidaysessionsperpupil2015-16)
# Sources quoted
* The Department for Education
* Russell Hobby, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT
* Paul Kelly, chief executive of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions