Who's not here...? Working towards keeping "absentee students" at school

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The report is presented in three sections. Section one contains the background to the study, the reasons for the research being undertaken, and a review of the most recent literature which to some extent has influenced the focus of the study. Section two covers the results of the study, and section three is a summary and conclusion to the study.

Author(s): Mary Donn, Ngaire Bennie & Jacqui Kerslake. Research and Statistics Division, Ministry of Education

Date Published: June 1993

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