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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? - Play games involving shapes (e.g., shape sorting toys, puzzles)
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Poland79.6%
2 Germany77.2%
3 Hungary75.6%
4 Czech Republic75.3%
5 Austria73.4%
6 Slovakia73.2%
7 Portugal72.5%
8 Italy72.3%
9 Russian Federation70.8%
10 Belgium69.5%
11 Malta69.4%
12 New Zealand68.3%
13 Canada67.9%
14 France67.5%
15 Serbia66.2%
16 Denmark65.1%
17 Ireland65.0%
18 Croatia64.3%
19 Spain64.2%
20 Kazakhstan 64.0%
21 Lithuania63.9%
22 Norway63.6%
23 Finland62.5%
24 Latvia61.9%
25 Cyprus61.6%
26 Bosnia and Herzegovina61.5%
27 Bulgaria60.7%
28 Iran57.5%
29 Albania56.8%
30 United Arab Emirates55.2%
31 North Macedonia54.4%
32 Republic of Korea53.9%
33 Armenia53.0%
33 Georgia53.0%
35 Montenegro51.5%
36 Japan51.4%
37 Kuwait51.1%
37 Singapore51.1%
39 Chile47.4%
40 Turkiye47.1%
41 Qatar46.5%
42 Bahrain46.2%
43 Sweden44.8%
44 Kosovo44.1%
45 Azerbaijan43.2%
46 South Africa41.0%
47 Hong Kong, China40.7%
48 Saudi Arabia39.9%
49 Philippines38.7%
50 Oman37.0%
51 Taiwan32.9%
52 Pakistan30.1%
53 Morocco21.8%

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 = 2.679077 X +4.625
Correlation coefficient (r)0.453
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.205

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 46177.427259 X +3038.750
Correlation coefficient (r)0.264
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.070

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 10.596124 X +71.858
Correlation coefficient (r)0.307
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.094

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -1.934280 X +2.806
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.504
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.254

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 14.259234 X +3.076
Correlation coefficient (r)0.291
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.085