Indicator 11: Average daily student attendance rate by grade level and gender

Table 10

The above data is for public schools only.
This is the second year that this attendance data has been fully collected, mainly because the SEDS database (described above) required the states to provide the data on a school by school basis, and the Data Management / EIS workshop (also described above) was used to train the data managers in its importance. Despite this, however, the data was incomplete, as discussed below. It should be determined if the DOEs are actually collecting all of the attendance data from the schools. The figures would be unusually high for a developed country, e.g. Australia, which has an attendance rate in the high eighties, and so must be regarded with some skepticism. With the right effort, however, the data collection system can be streamlined and reliable data collections made

In terms of gender difference between attendance rates, the above table shows a very similar male and female profile.