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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? - Write letters or words
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
2 Canada52.5%
3 France48.7%
4 Italy48.1%
6 Germany 34.7%
7 Japan34.1%

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 = 1.882683 X +5.701
Correlation coefficient (r)0.486
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.236

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 30086.610969 X +31757.820
Correlation coefficient (r)0.297
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -2.920035 X +83.494
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.192
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.037

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.488390 X +1.203
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -10.190148 X +13.411
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.296
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.088