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| Table B.1.02. | Average PIRLS combined reading literacy scores and subscale scores for fourth-grade students, by jurisdiction: 2006 |
| Combined reading literacy scale | Literary subscale | Informational subscale | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | Average score | s.e. | Average score | s.e. | Average score | s.e. | ||
| Austria | 538 | 2.2 | 537 | 2.1 | 536 | 2.3 | ||
| Belgium (Flemish)1 | 547 | 2.0 | 544 | 1.9 | 547 | 2.0 | ||
| Belgium (French) | 500 | 2.6 | 499 | 2.4 | 498 | 2.8 | ||
| Bulgaria | 547 | 4.4 | 542 | 4.5 | 550 | 4.4 | ||
| Canada, Alberta | 560 | 2.4 | 561 | 2.7 | 556 | 2.4 | ||
| Canada, British Columbia | 558 | 2.6 | 559 | 2.7 | 554 | 2.7 | ||
| Canada, Nova Scotia | 542 | 2.2 | 543 | 2.4 | 539 | 2.4 | ||
| Canada, Ontario | 555 | 2.7 | 555 | 3.0 | 552 | 3.0 | ||
| Canada, Quebec | 533 | 2.8 | 529 | 2.8 | 533 | 2.7 | ||
| Chinese Taipei | 535 | 2.0 | 530 | 2.0 | 538 | 1.8 | ||
| Denmark | 546 | 2.3 | 547 | 2.6 | 542 | 2.4 | ||
| England | 539 | 2.6 | 539 | 2.6 | 537 | 2.5 | ||
| France | 522 | 2.1 | 516 | 2.4 | 526 | 2.1 | ||
| Georgia | 471 | 3.1 | 476 | 3.2 | 465 | 3.6 | ||
| Germany | 548 | 2.2 | 549 | 2.2 | 544 | 2.3 | ||
| Hong Kong SAR2 | 564 | 2.4 | 557 | 2.6 | 568 | 2.3 | ||
| Hungary | 551 | 3.0 | 557 | 2.9 | 541 | 3.1 | ||
| Iceland | 511 | 1.3 | 514 | 1.7 | 505 | 1.4 | ||
| Indonesia | 405 | 4.1 | 397 | 3.9 | 418 | 4.2 | ||
| Iran | 421 | 3.1 | 426 | 3.1 | 420 | 3.1 | ||
| Israel | 512 | 3.3 | 516 | 3.4 | 507 | 3.6 | ||
| Italy | 551 | 2.9 | 551 | 3.3 | 549 | 2.9 | ||
| Kuwait | 330 | 4.2 | 340 | 3.7 | 327 | 4.3 | ||
| Latvia | 541 | 2.3 | 539 | 2.4 | 540 | 2.4 | ||
| Lithuania | 537 | 1.6 | 542 | 1.9 | 530 | 1.6 | ||
| Luxembourg | 557 | 1.1 | 555 | 1.0 | 557 | 1.0 | ||
| Macedonia | 442 | 4.1 | 439 | 3.7 | 450 | 4.2 | ||
| Moldova | 500 | 3.0 | 492 | 2.8 | 508 | 3.0 | ||
| Morocco | 323 | 5.9 | 317 | 6.5 | 335 | 6.0 | ||
| Netherlands1 | 547 | 1.5 | 545 | 1.8 | 548 | 1.6 | ||
| New Zealand | 532 | 2.0 | 527 | 2.1 | 534 | 2.2 | ||
| Norway3 | 498 | 2.6 | 501 | 2.5 | 494 | 2.8 | ||
| Poland | 519 | 2.4 | 523 | 2.5 | 515 | 2.2 | ||
| Qatar | 353 | 1.1 | 358 | 1.3 | 356 | 1.6 | ||
| Romania | 489 | 5.0 | 493 | 4.8 | 487 | 4.9 | ||
| Russian Federation | 565 | 3.4 | 561 | 3.3 | 564 | 3.3 | ||
| Scotland1 | 527 | 2.8 | 527 | 2.6 | 527 | 2.6 | ||
| Singapore | 558 | 2.9 | 552 | 2.9 | 563 | 2.8 | ||
| Slovak Republic | 531 | 2.8 | 533 | 2.9 | 527 | 2.6 | ||
| Slovenia | 522 | 2.1 | 519 | 2.0 | 523 | 2.4 | ||
| South Africa | 302 | 5.6 | 299 | 5.2 | 316 | 5.1 | ||
| Spain | 513 | 2.5 | 516 | 2.7 | 508 | 2.9 | ||
| Sweden | 549 | 2.3 | 546 | 2.3 | 549 | 2.4 | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | 436 | 4.9 | 434 | 4.6 | 440 | 4.6 | ||
| United States1 | 540 | 3.5 | 541 | 3.6 | 537 | 3.4 | ||
| 1 Met guidelines for sample participation rates in 2006 only after replacement schools were included. | ||||||||
| 2 Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China. | ||||||||
| 3 Did not meet guidelines for sample participation rates in 2006 after replacement schools were included. | ||||||||
| NOTE: Apparent differences may not be statistically significant. Standard error is noted by s.e. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: Data from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), 2006. Baer, J., Baldi, S., Ayotte, K., and Green, P. (2007). The Reading Literacy of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context: Results From the 2001 and 2006 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) (NCES 2008—017), tables R-1 and R-2. National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. Washington, DC. | ||||||||
