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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? - Sing songs
Choices: "Often" "Sometimes" "Never or almost never"
Data: % of "Often"
Period:
Area:
53 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Montenegro73.9%
2 Serbia72.8%
3 Chile72.3%
4 New Zealand70.3%
5 Norway69.9%
6 Spain68.1%
7 Cyprus68.0%
8 Malta67.9%
9 Italy67.3%
10 Bosnia and Herzegovina66.6%
11 Canada65.4%
12 Denmark63.9%
13 Hungary63.7%
14 North Macedonia62.9%
15 Ireland62.2%
16 Czech Republic61.7%
17 Croatia61.1%
18 Albania59.5%
19 Germany58.1%
20 Kosovo56.3%
21 Japan55.4%
22 Slovakia54.3%
23 Portugal54.1%
24 South Africa54.0%
25 Georgia53.4%
26 Sweden52.5%
27 Austria52.1%
28 Armenia51.1%
28 France51.1%
30 Belgium50.7%
31 United Arab Emirates49.4%
32 Bulgaria49.3%
33 Finland48.6%
34 Republic of Korea48.1%
35 Russian Federation47.2%
36 Poland46.5%
37 Kazakhstan45.9%
38 Singapore45.7%
39 Qatar42.2%
40 Kuwait42.0%
41 Bahrain41.8%
42 Latvia40.3%
43 Philippines39.9%
44 Taiwan36.4%
45 Lithuania35.3%
46 Saudi Arabia34.3%
47 Hong Kong, China34.1%
47 Iran34.1%
47 Turkiye34.1%
50 Azerbaijan32.3%
51 Oman25.8%
52 Morocco22.1%
53 Pakistan 15.9%

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 = 2.370747 X +4.933
Correlation coefficient (r)0.413
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.171

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data53
Regression equation
Y = 37353.267729 X +10160.926
Correlation coefficient (r)0.223
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.050

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = 10.668582 X +72.429
Correlation coefficient (r)0.329
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.108

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data52
Regression equation
Y = -1.916594 X +2.685
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.531
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.282

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data50
Regression equation
Y = 5.656060 X +8.427
Correlation coefficient (r)0.124
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.015