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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:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand66.1%
2 Hungary62.0%
3 Ireland61.3%
4 Canada57.3%
5 Slovakia52.1%
6 France48.1%
7 Republic of Korea45.2%
8 Czech Republic42.3%
9 Poland40.7%
10 Portugal37.5%
11 Chile34.2%
11 Germany34.2%
13 Turkiye34.1%
14 Italy33.9%
15 Belgium33.0%
16 Norway32.2%
17 Austria31.4%
18 Denmark30.4%
19 Latvia28.0%
20 Spain26.9%
21 Japan25.8%
22 Lithuania24.5%
23 Sweden 23.7%
24 Finland15.6%

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 = -0.786321 X +6.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.176
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.031

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 14659.273812 X +35731.391
Correlation coefficient (r)0.080
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.006

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -2.349177 X +81.009
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.090
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.008

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.329418 X +1.388
Correlation coefficient (r)0.185
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -3.090460 X +11.677
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.095
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.009