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Question: How often do these things happen in your language lessons? - the teacher helps students relate the stories they read to their lives
Choices: "Never or hardly ever" "In some lessons" "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Data: % of "In most lessons" "In all lessons"
Period:
Area:
73 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Kazakhstan 74.6%
2 Russian Federation73.7%
3 Kyrgyzstan70.1%
4 India66.9%
5 Montenegro65.2%
6 Moldova60.7%
7 Albania59.9%
8 Thailand58.4%
9 Malaysia56.0%
10 Azerbaijan55.8%
11 Georgia55.4%
12 Peru55.0%
13 Jordan54.2%
14 United Arab Emirates53.8%
15 Turkiye51.5%
16 Colombia51.4%
17 United States50.6%
18 Croatia49.9%
19 Qatar49.1%
20 Panama48.9%
21 Taiwan48.4%
22 Trinidad and Tobago47.3%
23 Tunisia47.1%
24 Indonesia46.0%
25 Slovenia45.6%
26 China45.5%
27 Hungary45.0%
28 Serbia44.8%
29 Costa Rica44.7%
30 Denmark44.6%
31 Poland44.5%
32 Canada44.3%
33 Venezuela44.0%
34 Chile43.2%
35 Romania42.8%
36 Bulgaria42.7%
37 Brazil40.5%
38 Latvia40.4%
39 Mauritius39.3%
40 Slovakia37.6%
41 Lithuania37.5%
42 Mexico37.0%
43 Portugal36.8%
44 Singapore35.7%
45 Hong Kong, China34.9%
46 Argentina34.4%
47 New Zealand33.4%
48 Greece33.3%
49 Switzerland32.4%
50 Australia32.3%
51 Republic of Korea32.0%
52 Iceland31.8%
53 Italy31.6%
54 Israel30.8%
55 Uruguay30.6%
56 Sweden30.4%
57 United Kingdom30.2%
58 Macao, China29.9%
59 Japan29.8%
60 Liechtenstein29.5%
61 Estonia29.1%
62 Ireland29.0%
63 Malta28.8%
64 Luxembourg28.1%
65 France27.4%
66 Belgium27.0%
67 Spain26.5%
68 Austria26.2%
69 Germany25.5%
70 Czech Republic22.6%
71 Norway19.9%
72 Netherlands17.9%
73 Finland17.3%

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

No data for 165 countries.

Source
OECD PISA 2009

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -4.046720 X +7.929
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.635
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.403

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -121229.192727 X +81774.857
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.576
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.332

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = -21.336973 X +87.294
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.719
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.517

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data72
Regression equation
Y = 1.471826 X +1.079
Correlation coefficient (r)0.448
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.201

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data69
Regression equation
Y = -4.556298 X +12.872
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.102
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.010