The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States Canada the United Kingdom and Japan in the year 2009

Essay topics:

The bar chart below shows shares of expenditures for five major categories in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan in the year 2009

The bar chart compares the percentages of consumers spending on five different items namely food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Japan in 2009.

It is clear that consumers in these countries spent the most money on housing, food and transportation.

In 2009, the percentage of buyers in the United States spending on housing was highest, with 26%, compared to the lower figure for the British, with 24 %. The figures of Canadian and Japanese residents were almost the same, at 21 % and 22 % respectively. In contrast, 23 % of Japanese citizens spent money on food, followed by 20% of the British, 14 % Canadians and 13% of Americans. The proportions of the US and Canada purchasers expending on transportation were higher than the figures for the others, with around 17 % and 20% respectively.

Healthcare and clothing were the least two expensive sectors. There were no significant differences in the proportions of the citizens in these nations spending on clothing, around 4 % to 6%. However, the rate of expenditure for health care in the United States was 7%, the figures for Canada and Japan citizens were the same, with 4%.

Votes
Average: 6.7 (83 votes)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
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: 34.0 33.7804878049 101% => 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: 1002.0 965.302439024 104% => OK
No of words: 195.0 196.424390244 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13846153846 4.92477711251 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73687570622 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97741720859 2.65546596893 112% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 106.607317073 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54358974359 0.547539520022 99% => OK
syllable_count: 296.1 283.868780488 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2366456644 43.030603864 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.333333333 112.824112599 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6666666667 22.9334400587 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.66666666667 5.23603664747 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
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: 0.225426793706 0.215688989381 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0856438522937 0.103423049105 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124631608875 0.0843802449381 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147752500216 0.15604864568 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.137797239168 0.0819641961636 168% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.2329268293 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 61.2550243902 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 11.4140731707 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.06136585366 104% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 40.7170731707 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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