ID 2007: Secondary School Absence Rates in England by Neighbourhood

England's pupil absences in maintained schools for the 2007 academic year. Administrative data from the Communities and Local Government ID 2007 collection, published by Neighbourhood Statistics. The dataset is aggregated at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) geography level.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic disparities in school absence rates based on LSOA-level aggregation.
• Study correlations between neighbourhood characteristics and pupil absenteeism based on administrative records.
• Benchmark local authority performance on school attendance for the 2007 academic year.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official administrative records from the UK government.
• Geographic coverage is specific to England and granular to the LSOA level.
• Temporal coverage is clearly defined for the 2007 academic year.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single year snapshot from 2007.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG): ID 2007, published by Neighbourhood Statistics.

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:38.472030; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA)