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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? - Talk about what you had read
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany45.9%
2 Sweden42.5%
3 Canada41.6%
4 Italy37.0%
5 France 30.7%
6 Republic of Korea30.1%
7 Japan12.4%

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 3 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.976831 X +5.552
Correlation coefficient (r)0.722
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.521

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 62875.442853 X +21665.884
Correlation coefficient (r)0.698
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.487

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -7.300319 X +85.319
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.761
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.579

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.936462 X +1.089
Correlation coefficient (r)0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -14.011135 X +16.002
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094