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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:
38 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia70.6%
2 Lithuania67.8%
3 Turkiye67.5%
4 Poland67.0%
5 United States65.8%
6 Slovenia65.3%
7 Canada65.2%
7 United Kingdom65.2%
9 Ireland63.2%
10 Portugal63.0%
11 Australia62.9%
12 Hungary62.7%
13 Colombia61.6%
14 New Zealand60.9%
15 Italy59.8%
16 Greece59.5%
17 Estonia59.3%
18 France58.4%
19 Denmark57.9%
19 Mexico57.9%
21 Germany57.7%
22 Chile57.3%
23 Switzerland56.0%
24 Sweden55.7%
25 Luxembourg55.4%
26 Austria54.0%
27 Spain53.5%
28 Costa Rica52.2%
29 Slovakia51.9%
30 Belgium50.6%
31 Czech Republic48.7%
32 Finland 47.2%
33 Israel45.1%
34 Japan41.6%
35 Norway41.3%
36 Iceland37.5%
37 Netherlands35.5%
38 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 data38
Regression equation
Y = -1.752656 X +7.667
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -60657.943111 X +78564.403
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.210
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.044

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -16.492817 X +89.091
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.440
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.194

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 0.162134 X +1.496
Correlation coefficient (r)0.051
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -7.490112 X +14.055
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.181
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.033