FOI Request - High-Resolution School Attendance Data

Request 101004002409

I am seeking to link indoor and outdoor air quality datasets (SAMHE, SEPA Volcanic Emissions Network, AURN, PurpleAir) with school absence data in Scotland during periods of volcanic activity from the Reykjanes peninsula. So far, I have only been able to locate aggregated annual attendance statistics.

1. I am therefore writing to ask whether higher resolution data, specifically daily attendance counts at the level of individual schools, from 2016 to the present (or as far back as records allow) might be available. Data from years prior to the 2021 onset of the eruptions will be used to establish baseline conditions, taking into account the disruption caused by the COVID 19 pandemic.