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Table 2 Mean achievement and percentages for different indicators of economic and cultural capital by country

From: Subject-specific strength and weaknesses of fourth-grade students in Europe: a comparative latent profile analysis of multidimensional proficiency patterns based on PIRLS/TIMSS combined 2011

Country

k

Achievement domaina

Background characteristics of the students

Mathematics

Science

Reading

SES

Parent. Edu

Books

Language

M

(SE)

M

(SE)

M

(SE)

%

(SE)

%

(SE)

%

(SE)

%

(SE)

Austria

4.587

505

(2.6)

528

(2.6)

512

(2.4)

6.5

(0.2)

6.5

(0.2)

6.1

(0.2)

6.5

(0.2)

Czech Republic

4.433

508

(2.5)

533

(2.3)

530

(2.2)

6.5

(0.2)

6.3

(0.2)

6.0

(0.2)

6.3

(0.2)

Finland

4.541

543

(2.3)

568

(2.2)

556

(2.0)

6.8

(0.2)

6.3

(0.2)

6.2

(0.2)

6.5

(0.2)

Germany

3.928

525

(2.2)

524

(2.3)

526

(2.4)

4.6

(0.1)

4.3

(0.1)

4.8

(0.1)

5.1

(0.1)

Hungary

5.149

512

(3.4)

531

(3.3)

524

(3.1)

6.8

(0.2)

6.9

(0.2)

6.9

(0.2)

7.4

(0.2)

Ireland

4.383

526

(2.8)

513

(3.1)

538

(2.7)

6.0

(0.1)

6.1

(0.1)

5.9

(0.1)

6.2

(0.1)

Italy

4.125

504

(2.7)

520

(2.6)

527

(2.0)

5.7

(0.1)

5.5

(0.1)

5.5

(0.1)

5.9

(0.1)

Lithuania

4.584

531

(2.6)

510

(2.4)

512

(2.0)

6.1

(0.1)

6.3

(0.1)

6.2

(0.1)

6.6

(0.1)

Malta

3.492

492

(1.3)

441

(1.9)

454

( .7)

4.4

(0.0)

4.2

(0.0)

4.7

(0.0)

4.9

(0.0)

Poland

4.962

477

(2.3)

500

(2.2)

508

(2.1)

7.1

(0.1)

7.2

(0.1)

6.7

(0.1)

7.1

(0.1)

Portugal

3.991

530

(3.4)

518

(3.8)

526

(2.9)

5.3

(0.3)

5.6

(0.3)

5.4

(0.3)

5.7

(0.3)

Romania

4.643

476

(6.0)

501

(6.1)

481

(4.9)

5.7

(0.2)

6.6

(0.2)

6.1

(0.2)

6.6

(0.2)

Slovak Republic

5.561

503

(3.9)

528

(3.7)

519

(3.1)

7.6

(0.2)

8.0

(0.2)

7.5

(0.2)

7.9

(0.2)

Slovenia

4.433

510

(2.0)

516

(2.1)

514

(2.1)

6.4

(0.2)

6.4

(0.2)

6.0

(0.1)

 b

 

Spain

4.105

479

(2.8)

501

(2.7)

493

(2.8)

5.5

(0.1)

5.4

(0.1)

5.5

(0.1)

5.9

(0.1)

Sweden

4.482

502

(2.2)

530

(2.6)

527

(2.1)

6.0

(0.2)

5.4

(0.2)

5.9

(0.1)

6.4

(0.2)

Northern Ireland

3.469

561

(2.7)

513

(2.5)

545

(2.4)

3.0

(0.1)

2.8

(0.1)

4.7

(0.1)

5.0

(0.1)

EU-country average

74.868

511

(0.7)

516

(0.7)

517

(0.6)

5.9

(0.0)

5.9

(0.0)

5.9

(0.0)

5.9

(0.0)

  1. aAchievement means based on the PIRLS/TIMSS 2011 combined dataset (Foy 2013) for which achievement measures are obtained using a multidimensional scaling approach combining all three subjects. Achievement means therefore differ from those in the TIMSS and PIRLS international report (shown in Table 1) b Data not available