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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? - Write numbers
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Albania81.8%
2 Kosovo77.8%
3 Azerbaijan73.2%
4 Kazakhstan 71.9%
5 Russian Federation70.6%
6 North Macedonia68.6%
7 Armenia65.2%
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina64.6%
9 Malta64.0%
10 Montenegro63.4%
11 Georgia63.1%
12 Bahrain61.7%
12 Philippines61.7%
14 United Arab Emirates61.6%
15 Serbia60.8%
16 Oman60.7%
17 South Africa59.4%
18 Cyprus58.3%
18 Poland58.3%
20 Latvia57.9%
21 Lithuania57.7%
22 Republic of Korea56.7%
23 Ireland55.8%
24 Kuwait54.7%
25 Saudi Arabia54.5%
26 Chile53.5%
27 Qatar53.2%
28 Croatia51.8%
29 Spain51.7%
30 Singapore50.7%
31 Canada49.4%
32 New Zealand49.2%
33 Pakistan47.5%
34 Bulgaria47.2%
35 Portugal45.8%
36 Italy44.3%
37 Morocco43.6%
38 Slovakia42.6%
39 France41.5%
40 Sweden39.0%
41 Turkiye38.7%
42 Iran37.5%
43 Austria37.1%
44 Taiwan35.7%
45 Germany35.2%
46 Hungary34.5%
47 Hong Kong, China33.8%
48 Czech Republic33.3%
49 Finland33.1%
50 Denmark32.6%
51 Norway32.1%
52 Japan30.7%
53 Belgium26.5%

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 185 countries.

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

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data51
Regression equation
Y = -2.172727 X +7.288
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.380
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.144

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = -88328.150802 X +75008.765
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.510
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.260

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -16.773748 X +86.669
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.500
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.250

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 0.608113 X +1.376
Correlation coefficient (r)0.163
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.027

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = -4.904460 X +13.913
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.100
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010