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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? - Read books
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand80.7%
2 Finland74.8%
3 Germany74.2%
4 Ireland71.6%
5 Canada71.2%
6 Denmark70.9%
7 Norway69.5%
8 Hungary68.1%
9 Czech Republic67.7%
10 Sweden67.5%
11 Austria66.3%
12 Poland63.8%
13 France60.4%
14 Latvia60.2%
15 Slovakia60.0%
16 Lithuania57.8%
17 Republic of Korea52.9%
18 Belgium48.6%
19 Spain48.4%
20 Italy48.3%
21 Portugal44.2%
22 Japan 41.2%
23 Chile30.2%
24 Turkiye27.2%

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 14 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 3.061643 X +4.793
Correlation coefficient (r)0.720
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.518

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 95365.903026 X -15297.487
Correlation coefficient (r)0.544
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.296

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 2.123292 X +78.847
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.317557 X +1.326
Correlation coefficient (r)0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 6.982908 X +6.344
Correlation coefficient (r)0.226
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.051