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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? - Tell stories
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Republic of Korea83.0%
2 Hungary81.5%
3 Montenegro73.0%
4 Serbia69.7%
5 Georgia67.6%
6 Armenia64.0%
7 Ireland63.8%
8 Canada62.8%
9 Croatia62.6%
10 New Zealand61.9%
11 Bosnia and Herzegovina61.4%
12 Malta60.6%
13 Cyprus60.1%
14 Russian Federation59.9%
15 Italy59.4%
16 North Macedonia58.8%
17 France58.7%
18 Albania58.0%
19 Spain57.9%
20 Kazakhstan57.0%
21 Germany53.9%
22 Azerbaijan53.1%
23 Portugal52.4%
24 Belgium51.7%
24 Lithuania51.7%
26 Czech Republic51.6%
27 Slovakia50.9%
28 Austria48.5%
28 Denmark48.5%
30 Norway47.1%
30 United Arab Emirates47.1%
32 Kosovo46.5%
33 Bahrain44.9%
34 Poland44.0%
35 Latvia42.9%
36 Chile42.8%
37 Bulgaria42.2%
38 Qatar41.4%
39 Oman40.5%
40 Kuwait39.9%
41 Iran38.5%
42 Sweden37.8%
43 Saudi Arabia35.5%
44 Finland34.9%
45 Pakistan 34.7%
46 Singapore34.1%
46 South Africa34.1%
48 Turkiye31.6%
49 Hong Kong, China30.3%
50 Philippines27.5%
51 Taiwan27.1%
52 Japan19.7%
53 Morocco16.2%

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 = 0.452624 X +5.946
Correlation coefficient (r)0.085
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.007

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = -5696.445953 X +32236.449
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.035
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 1.880373 X +77.020
Correlation coefficient (r)0.060
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.004

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -1.177195 X +2.280
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.335
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.112

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 12.630937 X +5.004
Correlation coefficient (r)0.284
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.081