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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? - Say counting rhymes or sing counting songs
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Canada57.3%
2 France 48.1%
3 Republic of Korea45.2%
4 Germany34.2%
5 Italy33.9%
6 Japan25.8%
7 Sweden23.7%

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 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 = -0.146649 X +6.630
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.039
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 9525.045514 X +39591.690
Correlation coefficient (r)0.115
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.013

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -2.408343 X +83.737
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.273
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.075

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.226097 X +1.497
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.083
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 5.422107 X +9.117
Correlation coefficient (r)0.129
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.017