Attendance and Absence in Scottish Schools 2005/06

Table 4.3: Average half days and percentage attendance and absence by local authority(1), special

(National Priorities indicator 2.2)

	attendance	authorised absence	unauthorised absence	absence due to temporary exclusions	attendance	authorised absence	unauthorised absence	absence due to temporary exclusion
	average number of half days				percentage of half days
Aberdeen City	331	40	8	1	87.0	10.5	2.1	0.3
Aberdeenshire	359	18	3	-	94.5	4.7	0.8	-
Angus
Argyll & Bute	357	22	1	-	93.9	5.9	0.2	-
Clackmannanshire	356	17	7	-	93.6	4.5	1.8	0.1
Dumfries & Galloway	365	14	2	-	96.0	3.6	0.4	-
Dundee City	353	26	1	-	93.0	6.7	0.3	-
East Ayrshire	361	16	3	-	95.0	4.2	0.8	0.1
East Dunbartonshire	360	16	4	-	94.7	4.3	1.0	-
East Lothian
East Renfrewshire	358	18	5	-	94.1	4.6	1.2	-
Edinburgh, City of	335	29	12	3	88.2	7.6	3.3	0.9
Eilean Siar
Falkirk	347	24	8	1	91.3	6.4	2.1	0.2
Fife	349	29	3	-	91.8	7.5	0.7	-
Glasgow City	347	25	6	1	91.3	6.7	1.7	0.3
Highland	354	24	2	-	93.1	6.3	0.6	-
Inverclyde	352	25	2	1	92.5	6.5	0.6	0.3
Midlothian	342	20	14	3	90.0	5.3	3.8	0.9
Moray
North Ayrshire	356	20	4	-	93.6	5.2	1.2	0.1
North Lanarkshire	333	28	16	3	87.7	7.4	4.2	0.7
Orkney Islands
Perth & Kinross	359	16	5	-	94.4	4.2	1.3	-
Renfrewshire	350	25	5	-	92.0	6.7	1.3	0.1
Scottish Borders
Shetland Islands
South Ayrshire	364	16	1	-	95.7	4.1	0.2	-
South Lanarkshire	337	29	13	1	88.7	7.6	3.4	0.3
Stirling	345	34	1	-	90.8	9.0	0.2	-
West Dunbartonshire	327	34	18	1	86.1	8.9	4.8	0.2
West Lothian	340	24	14	2	89.6	6.2	3.6	0.6
Local authorities	345	26	8	1	90.7	6.8	2.2	0.4

(1) Some differences between authorities are likely to be due to different recording practices. See paragraphs 1.2 to 1.7 in page 1.

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