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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? - Read aloud signs and labels
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Kazakhstan 70.4%
2 Russian Federation65.0%
3 Chile64.9%
4 Georgia62.1%
5 New Zealand60.5%
6 Spain60.3%
7 Republic of Korea57.3%
8 Bosnia and Herzegovina57.2%
9 Bahrain55.5%
10 Canada54.4%
11 Poland54.3%
12 Ireland54.2%
13 Serbia54.1%
14 Montenegro53.5%
15 Italy52.8%
16 Albania52.4%
17 Croatia51.8%
18 Malta51.2%
19 Slovakia50.8%
20 France50.7%
21 Latvia50.0%
22 Lithuania49.7%
23 United Arab Emirates49.5%
24 Portugal45.8%
25 Finland45.5%
26 Kuwait44.9%
27 Oman44.7%
28 Cyprus44.3%
29 Czech Republic44.1%
30 Denmark43.8%
31 Armenia43.7%
32 Saudi Arabia43.6%
33 Norway43.4%
34 Kosovo43.3%
35 Sweden42.7%
36 North Macedonia42.2%
36 Qatar42.2%
38 Azerbaijan40.8%
39 Bulgaria40.0%
40 Iran39.8%
41 Germany39.2%
42 Japan38.3%
43 South Africa37.6%
44 Singapore37.3%
45 Hungary35.9%
46 Austria35.8%
47 Philippines32.3%
48 Turkiye30.7%
49 Hong Kong, China28.8%
50 Morocco28.0%
51 Belgium27.4%
52 Taiwan26.8%
53 Pakistan22.2%

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 = 1.328578 X +5.559
Correlation coefficient (r)0.184
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.034

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = -12620.770321 X +35219.614
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.058
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 2.477497 X +76.811
Correlation coefficient (r)0.057
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.003

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -0.902810 X +2.110
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.187
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.035

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 14.004735 X +4.823
Correlation coefficient (r)0.227
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.052