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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - students don't start working for a long time after the lesson begins
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
72 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Netherlands44.5%
2 France37.5%
3 Brazil37.1%
4 Luxembourg35.8%
5 Greece34.6%
5 Tunisia34.6%
7 Argentina34.5%
8 Norway33.3%
9 Finland32.1%
10 Qatar30.4%
11 Austria30.3%
12 Chile29.9%
12 Venezuela29.9%
14 Czech Republic29.8%
15 Slovenia29.7%
16 Belgium28.7%
17 United Arab Emirates28.6%
18 Malta27.4%
19 Canada27.3%
19 Spain27.3%
21 Croatia27.2%
22 Italy26.3%
23 Jordan26.0%
24 New Zealand25.9%
25 Uruguay25.8%
26 Israel25.7%
27 Slovakia25.1%
28 Ireland24.9%
29 Trinidad and Tobago24.7%
30 Serbia24.6%
31 Switzerland24.2%
32 Australia23.6%
32 Panama23.6%
34 Bulgaria23.5%
34 Mexico23.5%
34 Sweden23.5%
37 Mauritius22.9%
38 Colombia22.6%
39 Turkiye22.0%
40 Costa Rica21.9%
40 Hungary21.9%
42 Estonia21.7%
42 Taiwan21.7%
44 India21.4%
44 Malaysia21.4%
46 Portugal20.6%
47 Macao, China20.5%
47 Poland20.5%
49 Montenegro19.4%
50 Iceland19.2%
51 Germany19.0%
52 United Kingdom18.8%
53 United States18.4%
54 Peru18.2%
55 Denmark18.1%
56 Singapore16.9%
57 Indonesia15.9%
58 Lithuania15.8%
59 Kyrgyzstan14.2%
60 Latvia13.9%
60 Moldova13.9%
62 Hong Kong, China13.8%
63 Azerbaijan13.7%
64 Romania13.4%
65 Republic of Korea12.6%
66 Albania11.8%
67 Russian Federation11.4%
68 Georgia11.2%
69 China11.1%
70 Japan8.6%
70 Thailand8.6%
72 Kazakhstan 7.8%

Note
Don't know/ No answer are excluded. China: Shanghai only.

No data for 166 countries.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = 3.346582 X +5.488
Correlation coefficient (r)0.309
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = 104970.589119 X +7439.127
Correlation coefficient (r)0.293
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.086

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data71
Regression equation
Y = 14.428016 X +75.142
Correlation coefficient (r)0.286
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.082

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data71
Regression equation
Y = -0.203154 X +1.736
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.036
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -14.423628 X +14.297
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.190
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036