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The survey aimed at describing some condition relating to reading and reading interest among the pupils and teachers who participated in the reading competition Read 90, and to measure the effect of classes in the 3.-5th grade in elementary school's participation in such a nationwide reading competition. The variables in the survey are, amongst other things, measurement of reading amounts, reading preferences and attitudes toward reading. Questionnaires were sent to teachers and pupils all over the country at three points of time. Furthermore, registers of the books that the pupils have read or the teacher has read for them are available in 6 lists. Respectively 2412, 2817 and 2924 pupils participated in the survey, and respectively 160, 141 and 173 teachers participated. This file contains data from the survey on pupils in April, 1991.