England.
Authors Gaynor Atwood and Paul Croll
Published by Educational Studies, December 2014
Summary
In an earlier study published in 2006, the authors of this report found substantial amounts of government spending to reduce truancy failed to result in a drop in rates of unauthorised absence.
The authors wanted to extend their analysis to look at pupils' wellbeing and truancy. They analysed data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, which began in 2004 when the young people were 13 and 14. The original sample was 21,000 young people and their parents, and 8,682 young people remained in the sample after seven years. Atwood and Croll used data from the second interview, when the young people were 14 and 15, and the seventh, when they were 20 and 21.
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