Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2005/06

Table 1.1: Percentage attendance and absence by reason(1)

	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06
	primary			secondary(2)			special			total(2)
attendance
in school	94.7	94.4	94.4	87.5	87.4	87.6	90.3	90.2	89.8	91.6	91.4	91.4
late	0.5	0.6	0.6	2.2	2.3	2.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	1.2	1.3	1.4
work experience	-	-	-	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
sickness with education provision	-	-	-	0.1	-	-	0.1	0.2	0.1	-	-	-
absence
sickness without education provision	1.4	2.1	2.3	2.5	3.8	4.3	1.5	2.4	2.8	1.9	2.8	3.2
very late	-	-	-	0.1	0.1	0.1	-	-	-	-	-	-
authorised holidays	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1
exceptional domestic circumstances	-	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
other authorised	2.3	1.7	1.5	5.2	3.6	2.9	4.8	3.8	3.5	3.5	2.5	2.1
unauthorised holidays	0.3	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.4
truancy	0.3	0.4	0.3	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.5	1.7	1.7	0.7	0.8	0.7
exceptional domestic circumstances (unauthorised)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
other unauthorised	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.2
temporary exclusion	-	-	-	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.1

(1) This information will be affected by differing reporting practices across local authorities and over time
(2) including S6

The Scottish Government