Frequent absence from work or school without good reason.
1 It's a school absence rate that is hard for the girl to make up for and partly accounts for girls dropping out of high school.
2 The agency said the rate was more than three times the 3.1 percent absence rate on the same day last year.
3 TSA spokesman Michael Bilello on Monday said TSA had a 7.6 percent unscheduled absence rate nationally, compared to a 3.2 percent rate a year ago.
4 The new measures to tackle school absence rates come into force in September.
5 School absence rates are getting worse, Ministry of Education figures reveal.
6 We compared student absence rates , adjusting for cluster design.
7 Fining parents for taking children out of school in term time in Wales has had no effect on overall absence rates , a review has found.
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