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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? - Talk about what you had read
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
24 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Latvia50.3%
2 Germany45.9%
3 Poland45.8%
4 Austria45.0%
5 Ireland44.2%
6 New Zealand44.0%
7 Slovakia43.7%
8 Denmark42.9%
9 Sweden 42.5%
10 Norway42.1%
11 Canada41.6%
11 Lithuania41.6%
13 Czech Republic40.3%
14 Finland38.8%
15 Chile37.5%
16 Italy37.0%
17 Turkiye35.3%
18 Belgium31.3%
19 France30.7%
20 Republic of Korea30.1%
21 Spain27.1%
22 Hungary25.5%
23 Portugal24.1%
24 Japan12.4%

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 = 2.869107 X +5.536
Correlation coefficient (r)0.425
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.181

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 77073.179559 X +12461.025
Correlation coefficient (r)0.277
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.077

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = -12.586566 X +84.827
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.318
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.101

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 0.869756 X +1.188
Correlation coefficient (r)0.323
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.104

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data24
Regression equation
Y = 1.067418 X +10.092
Correlation coefficient (r)0.022
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000