The figures give information about economic growth and household expenditure across a range of categories

Essay topics:

The figures give information about economic growth and household expenditure across a range of categories.

The line graph shows economic growth over a 15-year period ending 2010. The pie charts give a breakdown of household spending in four separate years over the same period. Viewed together, there appears to be a relationship between economic growth and patterns of spending.

According to the graph, economic growth began at a modest 1 percent, rose modestly, then remained more or less steady at about 2 percent until 2003. It grew sharply and peaked at nearly 5 percent in 2005, then fell dramatically to -5 percent in 2008, before recovering to 1 percent in 2010.

Over the same period, changes in patterns of spending were evident. In periods of low or negative growth, spending on housing and food accounted for a larger proportion of total household expenditure than in times of relative prosperity. Conversely, in times of economic growth, spending on less essential items such as travel, entertainment and clothing tended to increase. This is particularly evident in the chart for 2005 where together these three items appear to account for over 15 percent of total spending.

In summary, the figures show that in times of hardship, households spend a greater proportion of their income on necessities whereas, in times of prosperity, more is spent on non-essentials

Votes
Average: 8.2 (9 votes)

Comments

Transition Words or Phrases used:
conversely, then, whereas, in summary, such as, more or less

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 7.0 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 33.7804878049 136% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 3.97073170732 76% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1074.0 965.302439024 111% => OK
No of words: 208.0 196.424390244 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16346153846 4.92477711251 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79765784423 3.73543355544 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85690213219 2.65546596893 108% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 106.607317073 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615384615385 0.547539520022 112% => OK
syllable_count: 320.4 283.868780488 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 1.53170731707 131% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 8.94146341463 112% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3901028912 43.030603864 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.4 112.824112599 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 22.9334400587 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.23603664747 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171314589328 0.215688989381 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0689209523539 0.103423049105 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046686772517 0.0843802449381 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0977437830318 0.15604864568 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398153318065 0.0819641961636 49% => 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: 13.3 13.2329268293 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 61.2550243902 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 11.4140731707 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.06136585366 110% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 40.7170731707 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => 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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