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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? - Count different things
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Hungary82.5%
2 Poland77.2%
3 New Zealand75.7%
4 Russian Federation75.5%
5 Lithuania72.9%
6 Albania72.4%
6 Canada72.4%
8 Kazakhstan 72.1%
9 Malta70.9%
10 Germany70.7%
11 Latvia70.0%
12 Austria69.9%
13 Cyprus69.8%
14 Ireland69.5%
15 Serbia68.8%
16 Montenegro68.7%
17 Czech Republic68.1%
18 Armenia68.0%
19 Denmark66.0%
20 Kosovo65.6%
21 North Macedonia65.4%
22 Croatia65.3%
23 Norway64.2%
24 Azerbaijan63.5%
25 France63.1%
26 Spain63.0%
27 Georgia62.8%
27 Slovakia62.8%
29 United Arab Emirates62.6%
30 Chile61.9%
31 Republic of Korea61.7%
32 Bosnia and Herzegovina60.7%
33 Sweden57.5%
34 Bulgaria56.9%
35 Iran53.9%
36 Bahrain53.7%
37 Italy53.5%
38 Belgium53.4%
38 Portugal53.4%
40 Kuwait53.3%
41 Finland52.3%
42 Qatar51.1%
43 Oman51.0%
44 South Africa49.5%
45 Philippines47.2%
46 Pakistan47.1%
47 Japan46.4%
48 Singapore45.8%
49 Saudi Arabia42.3%
50 Hong Kong, China40.5%
51 Taiwan40.0%
52 Turkiye38.7%
53 Morocco26.6%

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 = 1.845580 X +5.051
Correlation coefficient (r)0.276
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.076

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 5793.040881 X +25919.493
Correlation coefficient (r)0.029
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.001

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -0.797189 X +78.444
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.020
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -1.272457 X +2.465
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.289
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.084

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 17.442688 X +0.728
Correlation coefficient (r)0.308
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.095