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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 things you had done
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Norway87.0%
2 Denmark84.6%
3 Finland83.7%
4 Italy82.9%
5 Germany82.2%
6 Sweden81.2%
7 Ireland78.8%
8 Austria78.5%
9 New Zealand78.1%
10 Czech Republic76.8%
11 Canada74.3%
12 Latvia74.0%
13 Croatia73.2%
13 Slovakia73.2%
15 Cyprus72.7%
16 Serbia72.4%
17 Portugal71.9%
18 Montenegro71.8%
19 France71.7%
20 Poland70.8%
21 Belgium70.4%
22 Bosnia and Herzegovina69.1%
23 Lithuania68.0%
24 Malta67.4%
25 Albania67.2%
26 Spain65.5%
27 Hungary65.3%
28 Russian Federation64.4%
29 Chile64.0%
30 United Arab Emirates61.5%
31 Bulgaria59.6%
32 North Macedonia59.2%
33 Kosovo57.4%
34 Bahrain56.9%
35 Oman54.9%
36 Kuwait53.9%
37 Qatar52.4%
38 Republic of Korea50.3%
39 Saudi Arabia50.2%
40 Iran49.9%
41 South Africa49.3%
41 Turkiye49.3%
43 Taiwan49.2%
44 Georgia48.0%
45 Singapore44.7%
46 Kazakhstan44.3%
47 Armenia43.1%
48 Pakistan42.9%
48 Philippines42.9%
50 Morocco 37.7%
51 Hong Kong, China32.5%
52 Japan29.6%
53 Azerbaijan27.0%

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 = 3.408594 X +4.046
Correlation coefficient (r)0.674
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.454

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 64377.040184 X -10520.855
Correlation coefficient (r)0.421
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.177

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 10.178126 X +71.621
Correlation coefficient (r)0.346
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.120

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -1.187253 X +2.431
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.363
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.132

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 9.433282 X +5.433
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050