# Children who are not in school

> Persistent absence means missing a day a fortnight, all year. In Camden it is three secondary pupils in ten.

- Category: People
- Cadence: annual
- Status: Published on a annual cadence.
- Dataset key: `persistent-absence`
- Source: [Department for Education](https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/children-who-are-not-in-school](https://londongraph.com/data/children-who-are-not-in-school)

## Methodology

Persistent absentees — pupils missing 10% or more of possible sessions — as a share of state-funded secondary enrolments, by borough, latest academic year. Secondary only: the problem concentrates there, and averaging it with primary would hide it. The City of London has too few secondary schools to appear.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school?view=overview): Persistent absence means missing a day a fortnight, all year. In Camden it is three secondary pupils in ten.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school?view=distribution): Place every mapped area in the selected measure's distribution while preserving missing values.
- [Persistent vs severe](https://londongraph.com/g/children-who-are-not-in-school?view=relationship): Compare persistent and severe secondary-school absence by borough. Caveat: A spatial association does not establish that either measure causes the other.

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