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With the exception of storytelling, children were morelikely to undertake these activities in areas of lowerlevels of isolation (Figure 27). Children in areas of higherisolation were 13.6 percentage points more likely to havehad a story told to them than those in areas of no orlow isolation. Children whose primary carer had a higherlevel of education (a university qualification or Year 12certificate) were as likely to have had a story told to themin the previous week regardless of the level of isolation.However, the children of parents with lower levels ofeducation were more likely to have a story told to themif they lived in areas of moderate to extreme isolation.Interestingly, the number of children’s books in thehousehold (reported in wave 2) did not make a significantdifference to the likelihood of children having a story toldto them. However, it did make a difference in the uptakeof the other three activities. Children who did notparticipate in the other activities were more likely to haveon average fewer books in the house than those childrenwho did participate.A comparison of the likelihood of engaging in theseactivities with the number of hours of television watchingshows that there is no significant impact. Children whoengaged in one or more of these activities tended towatch similar levels of television as shown in the previoussection. Furthermore, children who did not engage in anyof these activities were also found to watch televisionin the same proportions across low, moderate and highlevels of viewing as those who did undertake the activities.In a separate set of questions, children in the K cohortwere asked directly whether they liked various activities.Table 55 shows that girls were much more likely than boysto enjoy reading books and drawing but both boys andgirls enjoyed making things.Figure 27: Percentage of children doing activities by LORI, per centTable 55: Study children’s enjoyment of non-physical activities, per centYes Sometimes NoActivity Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys GirlsMaking things 90.2 91.7 4.6 4.9 5.3 3.4Drawing pictures 85.7 93.2 7.2 5.3 7.2 1.5Reading books 74.8 87.6 9.0 5.6 16.2 6.866 Footprints in Time: The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children | Key Summary Report from Wave 3