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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher encourages students to express their opinion about a text
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
10 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 United States65.8%
2 Canada65.2%
2 United Kingdom65.2%
4 Australia62.9%
5 Italy59.8%
6 France 58.4%
7 Germany57.7%
8 Sweden55.7%
9 Japan41.6%
10 Republic of Korea25.8%

Note
Don't know/ No answer are excluded. China: Shanghai only.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 2.179086 X +5.438
Correlation coefficient (r)0.671
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.450

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 71717.627542 X +8904.992
Correlation coefficient (r)0.633
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.401

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -9.047871 X +87.050
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = 1.818446 X +0.464
Correlation coefficient (r)0.779
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.607

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data10
Regression equation
Y = -25.151308 X +25.137
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.696
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.484