How much school are children missing?: Share of eighth-grade students by attendance/absenteeism category, in the eighth-grade mathematics NAEP sample, 2003 and 2015
2003
2003
Not absent
43.6%
1–2 days
34.1%
3–4 days
14.1%
5–10 days
5.8%
More than 10 days
2.4%
(Total 3–4, 5–10, and more than 10 days)
22.3%
2015
2015
Not absent
44.4%
1–2 days
36.4%
3–4 days
12.7%
5–10 days
4.8%
More than 10 days
1.7%
(Total 3–4, 5–10, and more than 10 days)
19.2%
Source: EPI analysis of National Assessment of Educational Progress microdata, 2003 and 2015