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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - students don't start working for a long time after the lesson begins
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands44.5%
2 France37.5%
3 Luxembourg35.8%
4 Greece34.6%
5 Norway33.3%
6 Finland32.1%
7 Austria30.3%
8 Chile 29.9%
9 Czech Republic29.8%
10 Slovenia29.7%
11 Belgium28.7%
12 Canada27.3%
12 Spain27.3%
14 Italy26.3%
15 New Zealand25.9%
16 Israel25.7%
17 Slovakia25.1%
18 Ireland24.9%
19 Switzerland24.2%
20 Australia23.6%
21 Mexico23.5%
21 Sweden23.5%
23 Colombia22.6%
24 Turkiye22.0%
25 Costa Rica21.9%
25 Hungary21.9%
27 Estonia21.7%
28 Portugal20.6%
29 Poland20.5%
30 Iceland19.2%
31 Germany19.0%
32 United Kingdom18.8%
33 United States18.4%
34 Denmark18.1%
35 Lithuania15.8%
36 Latvia13.9%
37 Republic of Korea12.6%
38 Japan8.6%

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 data38
Regression equation
Y = 2.334148 X +6.108
Correlation coefficient (r)0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 101990.826369 X +19382.820
Correlation coefficient (r)0.254
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.065

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 12.015082 X +76.883
Correlation coefficient (r)0.231
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.053

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 0.678545 X +1.419
Correlation coefficient (r)0.155
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.024

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -18.109304 X +14.335
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.316
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.100