Telephone conversations in Finland
The bar chat illustrates the amount of minutes (in millions) of telephone conversations in Finland, separated into three types, from 1995-2004. In all years local landline minutes was higher than other two. In Finland Mobile usage was very less when comparing to the other telephone conversation ways.
Furthermore, in 1995 to 2001 there was a increase in Local- landline up to 17000 in millions, but from 2001 to 2004 there was a decreasing trend. The least figure was 6000 in millions in National and international –landlines while the highest figure was 10500 in millions in 2004.
There was a dramatic increase in mobile calls from 250 to 9800 million minutes. This rise was particularly noticeable between 2000 and 2004, during which time the use of mobile phones tripled.
To sum up, although local landline calls were still the most popular in 2004, the gap between three categories had narrowed considerately over the second half of the period in the graph.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6.5 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 10
No. of Words: 160 200
No. of Characters: 784 1000
No. of Different Words: 97 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.557 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.9 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.66 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 51 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 40 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 29 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 16 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.557 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.375 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.413 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.719 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.053 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4