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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? - Read books
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 New Zealand80.7%
2 Finland74.8%
3 Germany74.2%
4 Ireland71.6%
5 Canada71.2%
6 Denmark70.9%
7 Russian Federation70.8%
8 Norway69.5%
9 Hungary68.1%
10 Georgia68.0%
11 Czech Republic67.7%
12 Sweden67.5%
13 Austria66.3%
14 Poland63.8%
15 France60.4%
15 Malta60.4%
17 Latvia60.2%
18 Slovakia60.0%
19 Kazakhstan58.7%
20 Lithuania57.8%
21 Armenia57.6%
22 Cyprus56.5%
23 Republic of Korea52.9%
24 Serbia51.2%
25 Montenegro49.8%
26 Albania48.8%
27 Belgium48.6%
28 Spain48.4%
29 Italy48.3%
30 Kosovo45.2%
31 Portugal44.2%
32 Azerbaijan43.1%
32 Croatia43.1%
34 North Macedonia41.3%
35 Japan41.2%
36 Singapore40.7%
37 Bulgaria38.9%
38 Pakistan38.6%
39 United Arab Emirates37.4%
40 Philippines36.7%
41 South Africa35.2%
42 Bosnia and Herzegovina35.0%
43 Hong Kong, China34.4%
44 Taiwan32.3%
45 Oman32.2%
46 Chile30.2%
47 Bahrain29.0%
48 Qatar28.8%
49 Turkiye27.2%
50 Iran25.5%
51 Kuwait22.0%
52 Saudi Arabia21.7%
53 Morocco 14.6%

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 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 = 2.623024 X +4.853
Correlation coefficient (r)0.552
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.305

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 53698.310244 X +2837.150
Correlation coefficient (r)0.382
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.146

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 6.465998 X +74.738
Correlation coefficient (r)0.238
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.057

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -0.926012 X +2.153
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.306
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 14.680410 X +4.001
Correlation coefficient (r)0.388
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.151