The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.

Essay topics:

The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.

The pie chart compares five categories of household expense in the UK and New Zealand in the years 1980 and 2008.
It is clear that the percentage of expenditure on Food and drink dropped significantly in both countries over the period shown whereas the figures for utility bills increased. Besides, UK residents spent a large percentage of their household budgets on leisure than their New Zealand counterparts.
In 2008, the proportion of household budgets for food and drink in the UK was lower than their New Zealand counterparts, with 23% and 29 % respectively. By 2008, spending on food and drink had fallen slightly to 25% in New Zealand and had dropped dramatically to 13% in the UK. By contrast, both countries experienced a slight rise in expenditure on utility bills for the average home, from 27% to 31% in New Zealand and from 26% to 28% in the UK.
UK residents spent twice as much in relative terms on recreation (34%) as New Zealand citizens (17%) in 2008. In both countries, transport costs and other costs accounted for 15% and 10% of household budget respectively.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, if, whereas

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 7.0 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 6.8 147% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 33.7804878049 98% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 901.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 185.0 196.424390244 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87027027027 4.92477711251 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.68801715136 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88192604787 2.65546596893 109% => OK
Unique words: 97.0 106.607317073 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524324324324 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 252.9 283.868780488 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.8743961282 43.030603864 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.625 112.824112599 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.125 22.9334400587 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.23603664747 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13521397211 0.215688989381 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688199698311 0.103423049105 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.053435403615 0.0843802449381 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102241294008 0.15604864568 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599871927237 0.0819641961636 73% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 13.2329268293 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 61.2550243902 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 11.4140731707 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.06136585366 99% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 40.7170731707 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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