The chart below shows the percentage of total US population aged 65 and over between 1900 and 2000.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar graph depicts the trend in the number of Americans over the age group of 65 – 74, 75 – 84 and 85 and up. The study covers the period between 1900 to 2000.
Overall, it can be seen that there was a varied increase in the population of the US citizens. It is also clear that there was a steady rise in the number of people in the America aged 75 – 84 and over 85 years old.
In detail, the population of people in the USA grew gradually from 1900 to 1960 where the data was noted from 2.9 % to 6.1 %. Within the next ten years, this figure remained the same before it marginally rose up to 7.3 %. From 1990 to 2000, the data tailed off to 6.5 % which is more than twice that of its percentage at the start of period.
Concurrently, those who were 75 – 84 years old recorded a steady increment in the overall population within a century from 1 % reaching a high of 4.4 %. Similarly, those who were 85 years old and up rose steadily from 0.2 % to 1.5 % in 2005. By comparison, this is 0.5 % more than the initial record for 75 – 84 years old in 1900.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, similarly, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 7.0 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 3.15609756098 222% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 12.0 5.60731707317 214% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 33.7804878049 121% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 3.97073170732 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 860.0 965.302439024 89% => OK
No of words: 207.0 196.424390244 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.15458937198 4.92477711251 84% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79308509922 3.73543355544 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.21996413051 2.65546596893 84% => OK
Unique words: 116.0 106.607317073 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56038647343 0.547539520022 102% => OK
syllable_count: 243.0 283.868780488 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.45097560976 83% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 1.53170731707 392% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 26.977027264 43.030603864 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.0 112.824112599 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7 22.9334400587 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.9 5.23603664747 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.09268292683 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139398738803 0.215688989381 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606700067543 0.103423049105 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0434942693458 0.0843802449381 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0925222278946 0.15604864568 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0430035652003 0.0819641961636 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.2329268293 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 85.02 61.2550243902 139% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 10.3012195122 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 6.79 11.4140731707 59% => Coleman_liau_index is low.
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.07 8.06136585366 88% => OK
difficult_words: 32.0 40.7170731707 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.0658536585 63% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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