Age-standardised rate of student stand-downs from New Zealand schools among European/Pākehā people

2018–2023, rate per 1000 students

The following information applies to all values in the table. Ethnic group: European/Pākehā, Measure: Age-standardised rate of stand-downs in schools
Year	Rate per 1000 students
2018	19.49488129732
2019	22.38700698791
2020	18.97033096951
2021	21.756891199
2022	26.4681935866
2023	33.25808154

Definitions

A state or state integrated school principal may consider the formal removal of a student through a stand-down from school for a period of up to 5 school days. A stand-down, for any student, can total no more than 5 school days in a term, or 10 days in a school year. Students return automatically to school following a stand-down.

Data calculation/treatment

The age-standardised stand-down rate is one where all subgroups, for all years, being compared are artificially given the same age distribution. In this indicator, the age distributions of students in each subgroup and year have been standardised to (or weighted by) the set of age-specific stand-down rates for all New Zealand.
As stand-downs are highest for ages 13 to 15, standardising for age will remove any differences due to one group having a younger or older population than other groups, or if the overall age distribution has changed from year to year. As such, the standardised rate is an artificial measure, but it does provide an estimate of how groups, or overall rates by year, might more fairly compare if they had the same age distribution.