The chart below gives information about how families in one country spent their weekly income in 1968 and in 2018.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
The bar chart compares the average weekly spending income by families in one country over a period of fifty years.
Overall, spending on food accounted for the highest proportion in 1968 while in 2018, spending on leisure was highest. The percentage of spending on fuel and power was the lowest over the period shown.
In 1968, expenditure on food accounted for 35%, this figure was over double that in 2018. Over the following fifty years, the proportion of money spent on fuel and power, clothing and footwear, and personal goods also decreased. In 2018, the average weekly budget for fuel and power fell to under 5%. There was a significant decline in clothing and footwear, from 10% in 1968 to 5% in 2018. The percentage of the budget spent on personal goods was around 8% in 1968, this figure decreased doubled to approximately 4% in 2018.
Other goods and services saw different increases. Spending on leisure rose closely triple to 24% in 2018. In 2018, there was a considerable growth in housing to nearly 20%. The proportion of expenditure on transport climbed by about 7% over a fifty-year period. Only the budget spent on household goods remained almost unchanged, at around 8%.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, 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 : 7.0 6.8 103% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 33.7804878049 136% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 999.0 965.302439024 103% => OK
No of words: 202.0 196.424390244 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94554455446 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.76996954942 3.73543355544 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61555319537 2.65546596893 98% => OK
Unique words: 101.0 106.607317073 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.547539520022 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 286.2 283.868780488 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 8.94146341463 145% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.4926829268 67% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.1644128492 43.030603864 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.8461538462 112.824112599 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5384615385 22.9334400587 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.46153846154 5.23603664747 28% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 3.70975609756 54% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.09268292683 244% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128499619346 0.215688989381 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0508135570406 0.103423049105 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412671397671 0.0843802449381 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0926143226757 0.15604864568 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.049921337694 0.0819641961636 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 13.2329268293 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 61.2550243902 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 10.3012195122 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 11.4140731707 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.06136585366 95% => OK
difficult_words: 42.0 40.7170731707 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.9970731707 73% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.