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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? - Play games involving shapes (e.g., shape sorting toys, puzzles)
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany77.2%
2 Italy72.3%
3 Canada67.9%
4 France67.5%
6 Japan51.4%

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 = 2.272756 X +4.994
Correlation coefficient (r)0.663
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.440

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 60183.412544 X +4402.237
Correlation coefficient (r)0.670
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.449

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -10.766802 X +89.462
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.802
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.643

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = 0.547351 X +1.048
Correlation coefficient (r)0.235
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.055

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data5
Regression equation
Y = -21.574485 X +23.477
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.707
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.500