according to the latest pisa results students socioeconomic backgrounds have a varying degree of influence on their performance in science reading and mathematics in such countries as austria chile belgium france germany singapore and switzerland socioeconomic backgrounds exercise a particularly strong influence on students performance since students from disadvantaged backgrounds in these countries are very likely to not perform as well in pisa assessments as their peers from advantaged backgrounds on the other hand in macao china hong kong china japan finland estonia korea and canada the socioeconomic background of students has a much weaker influence on their performance