The charts below show the proportion of people s spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1958 and in 2008

Essay topics:

The charts below show the proportion of people’s spending on different commodities and services in a particular European country in 1958 and in 2008.

The charts indicate the proportion of individuals’ expenditures on six daily sectors in a European nation during a 50-year period.

It is clear that people in the country spent an amount of money on Housing, Clothing and Entertainment. Noticeably, the percentage of expenditures on Housing overtook that of Clothing after fifty years.

In 1998, the percentage of citizens’ spending on Clothing was highest, at 32%, followed by Housing, at around 22%. Meanwhile, 18% and 13% of people’s spending were on Entertainment, and Travel or Transport respectively, compared to 7% on Luxury goods. By contrast, people in the European nation did not spend much money on Food, with its figure at only 8%.

In 2008, there was a dramatic increase to 32% in the proportion of people’s expenditures on Housing. Whereas the percentage of individuals’ spending on Luxury goods rose significantly by 10% to 17%, the year of 2008 saw a sharp drop in the figure for Clothing to only 12%. At the same time, the percentage of expenditures on Food went up slightly to 17%. In contrast, there were decreases in the figures for Housing and Entertainment to 6% and 16% respectively.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, whereas, while, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 7.0 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 33.7804878049 139% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 3.97073170732 126% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 985.0 965.302439024 102% => OK
No of words: 192.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13020833333 4.92477711251 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24388028934 2.65546596893 122% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 106.607317073 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 284.4 283.868780488 100% => 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
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 3.36585365854 238% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 24.7832604796 43.030603864 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 98.5 112.824112599 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2 22.9334400587 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.1 5.23603664747 59% => 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 : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.09268292683 122% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167689162734 0.215688989381 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673004916646 0.103423049105 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0541423382913 0.0843802449381 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101232422346 0.15604864568 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245530858038 0.0819641961636 30% => 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: 12.3 13.2329268293 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 61.2550243902 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 11.4140731707 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 38.0 40.7170731707 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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