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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? - Sing songs
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile72.3%
2 New Zealand70.3%
3 Norway69.9%
4 Spain68.1%
5 Italy67.3%
6 Canada65.4%
7 Denmark63.9%
8 Hungary63.7%
9 Ireland62.2%
10 Czech Republic61.7%
11 Germany58.1%
12 Japan55.4%
13 Slovakia54.3%
14 Portugal54.1%
15 Sweden 52.5%
16 Austria52.1%
17 France51.1%
18 Belgium50.7%
19 Finland48.6%
20 Republic of Korea48.1%
21 Poland46.5%
22 Latvia40.3%
23 Lithuania35.3%
24 Turkiye34.1%

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 = 1.741368 X +5.635
Correlation coefficient (r)0.313
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.098

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 85166.459931 X -6410.356
Correlation coefficient (r)0.371
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.138

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 14.949473 X +71.724
Correlation coefficient (r)0.459
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.211

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.015374 X +1.506
Correlation coefficient (r)0.007
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -16.271554 X +19.618
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.403
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.162