Number of marriages and divorces in the USA 1970-2000, Marital status of adult Americans, 1970-2000
The first bar chart shows the number of marriages and divorces in the US from 1970 to 2000, and the second one compares the proportions of grown-up Americans during the same period depicted.
In general, the marital status shown in the first graph saw a gradual fall over years. However, the percentage of marriages was seen as higher than the other groups.
In 1970, approximately 2.5 million couples got married. This number remained by 1980, followed by a gradual fall until it was recorded at nearly 2 million married couples by 2000. The number of divorced couples was roughly 1 million by the beginning of the period, then it peaked at almost 1,5 million in 1980, before a decrease in the following years until it reached about 1 million by 2000.
In 1970, about 15% of mature Americans were unmarried, increasing to 20% by 2000. The group of married people in the US took the highest percentage, which was recorded at roughly 70% and 60% by the start and end of the period, respectively. Over the period, the widowed slightly fell from about 9% to 6%, while the divorced couples rose from almost 3% to 10%.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, second, then, while, in general
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 : 4.0 6.8 59% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 33.7804878049 127% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 921.0 965.302439024 95% => OK
No of words: 196.0 196.424390244 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69897959184 4.92477711251 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.74165738677 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49841161536 2.65546596893 94% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 106.607317073 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545918367347 0.547539520022 100% => OK
syllable_count: 261.0 283.868780488 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.45097560976 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 3.36585365854 178% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.2274039317 43.030603864 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.333333333 112.824112599 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7777777778 22.9334400587 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 5.23603664747 100% => 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: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284928155832 0.215688989381 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115059782459 0.103423049105 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0926991688269 0.0843802449381 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168190522786 0.15604864568 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0750030329501 0.0819641961636 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.2329268293 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.54 61.2550243902 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.3012195122 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 11.4140731707 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.06136585366 94% => OK
difficult_words: 36.0 40.7170731707 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.4329268293 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.0658536585 72% => OK
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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.