Youth Indicators 1996 / Indicator 38
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| Average |Age for | Average |Average num-| Percent of
| days of |starting| minutes |ber of hours| students who
Country | instruction | school | of instruc- |of instruc- |spend 2 or more
|in the school| | tion in the | tion per |hours on home-
| year/1/ | |school day/1/|school year | work daily/2/
-----------------------|-------------|--------|-------------|------------|---------------
China/2,3/ 251 6 or 7 305 1,276 35
Korea 222 6 264 977 38
Taiwan 222 6 318 1,177 44
Israel/4/ 215 6 278 996 49
Switzerland/5/ 207 6 or 7 305 1,052 21
Emilia-Romagna, Italy/2/ 204 6 289 983 78
(Former) Soviet Union/6/ 198 6 or 7 243 802 52
Jordan 191 6 260 828 54
Scotland 191 6 324 1,031 15
Slovenia 190 5 248 785 27
Canada/7/ 188 6 304 953 26
Spain/8/ 188 7 285 893 62
United States 178 6 338 1,003 31
Hungary 177 6 223 658 61
France 174 6 370 1,073 55
Ireland 173 6 323 931 66
Portugal/2/ 172 6 334 957 30
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/1/ For 13-year-olds.
/2/ Populations with exclusions or low participation.
/3/ Includes 20 provinces and cities.
/4/ Schools where instruction is in Hebrew.
/5/ Fifteen cantons.
/6/ Schools in 14 republics, where instruction is in Russian.
/7/ Nine provinces.
/8/ Includes Spanish speaking schools, except in Cataluna.
-Data not available.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, International Assessment of Educational Progress, Learning Science.
[Indicator 37. International Achievement Comparisons]
[Indicator 39. Extracurricular Activities]
