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Question: Before your child began primary/elementary school, how often did you or someone else in your home do the following activities with him or her? - Tell stories
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Canada62.8%
3 Italy59.4%
4 France58.7%
5 Germany 53.9%
7 Japan19.7%

Note
The result of the survey on the parents of Grade 4 students. Belgium: The Flemish Community only. United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 2 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2019 > International Database > TIMSS 2019 Data Almanacs - Grade 4

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 1.471531 X +5.773
Correlation coefficient (r)0.785
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.616

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 33825.492785 X +27664.424
Correlation coefficient (r)0.688
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.473

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -5.203875 X +84.869
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.708
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.501

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.429308 X +1.197
Correlation coefficient (r)0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -9.701147 X +13.904
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.581
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.338