A comparative analysis of school pupils' daily habits in Germany and China

The study of school pupils' daily habits is of importance for diverse fields such as sociology and education. Previous related work mainly focused on some specific attribute or habit of students, which ignored many important factors and failed to exploit the correlation among habit-related factors. In this paper, we conduct a comparative analysis of school pupils' daily habits in Germany and China from different perspectives. We first collect a set of valid data about the daily habits of school pupils by an online user study. Based on this dataset, we analyze the similarity and difference between Germany and China students from three mainly habit-related aspects, i.e., personal attribute, school performance and extracurricular habit. Furthermore, we study the correlation among several attributes or habits. The comparative analysis illustrates several interesting results and help us gain deep insights into the education and human behavior of school pupils from the two countries.

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