The bar chart below shows the percentage of people living alone in 5 different age group in the USA between 1850 and 2000.

The chart compares the proportion of citizens living alone in 5 age groups from 17 to 64 years old in America during a 150 – year period since 1850.

Overall, the figure for people living alone increased gradually through the period surveyed in all categories and that for people aged 55 – 64 was generally the highest. Units are measured in percentages.

In 1850, figures of three age groups were given. Only around 2% of people aged 37 – 46 and those aged 47 - 54 lived alone, approximately 1% lower compared to those the 55 – 64-year-olds. During the next 50 years, in 1900, the proportion of citizens living alone from 27 – 36 years old contributed just above 2%, while that in 37 – 46 age group remained unchanged. There was a slight increase of approximately 1% and 2% in 47 – 54 and 55 – 64 categories respectively.

A new pattern, people aged 17 – 26, emerged in 1950, with the percentage of those living alone in all ages went up sharply. However, 2000 saw a significant increase in the proportion of citizens living alone. The percentage of the 37 – 46-year-olds living alone was followed by the 27 – 36-year-olds, stood at 7% and 8%, respectively, ahead of the 17 – 26 age group with just 5%. The figure for 47 – 54 years old group was almost 4 times higher than that in 1950, at 13%; whereas that for the 55 – 64-year-olds nearly doubled to reach the high peak at 17%.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 7.0 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 6.8 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 7.0 5.60731707317 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 33.7804878049 115% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1163.0 965.302439024 120% => OK
No of words: 256.0 196.424390244 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.54296875 4.92477711251 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0 3.73543355544 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71616513283 2.65546596893 102% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 106.607317073 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50390625 0.547539520022 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 317.7 283.868780488 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.45097560976 83% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 8.94146341463 123% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.4926829268 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.329492857 43.030603864 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.727272727 112.824112599 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2727272727 22.9334400587 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.90909090909 5.23603664747 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 1.13902439024 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254106962638 0.215688989381 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113627109625 0.103423049105 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0731702027489 0.0843802449381 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177523222577 0.15604864568 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0223040770868 0.0819641961636 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.2329268293 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 81.97 61.2550243902 134% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.5 10.3012195122 73% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.35 11.4140731707 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.61 8.06136585366 94% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 40.7170731707 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.9970731707 102% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => 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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