The pie charts below give information about the household expenditure of an average US family in different years Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

Essay topics:

The pie charts below give information about the household expenditure of an average US family in different years.

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The given graphs compare the Average household expenditure on six different parameters for two distinct years: 1970 and 2004.

Through this graph, one can say that there has been a tremendous change in spending habits of households in US in the time span of 34 years. Significant variation is observed in the expenditure of Mortgage, clothing and childcare while entertainment expense has not varied at all. In both the years, Americans has spend the highest on mortgage. In 1970, people paid for childcare the least whereas in 2004 Transport occupies the bottom most position.

Among the accounted expenditures, Households spent about 26% on mortgage in 1970 which rose as high as 50% of the total in 2004. A meager 1% is the expenditure in child care in the earlier given year but has expanded to 10% in the latest given year. Other than these two, the expense contribution of other attributes has either decreased or is consistent. Expenditure on food has reduced from 25% to 12% which is more than half. Similarly, people who spent 13 % on transport in 1970 are spending as less as 5% in 2004. This trend has resonated in clothing as it fell from 22% to 10%. Entertainment accounts a constant 13% expense in both the years

The order of spending from highest to lowest in 1970 is mortgage, food, clothing transport, entertainment and childcare. Meanwhile in 2004, Mortgage ranks first followed by entertainment, food, childcare, clothing and transport

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use past participle here: 'spent'.
Suggestion: spent
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Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Meanwhile,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, similarly, so, whereas, while

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 33.7804878049 121% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 3.97073170732 176% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1221.0 965.302439024 126% => OK
No of words: 243.0 196.424390244 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02469135802 4.92477711251 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.94822203886 3.73543355544 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89467012926 2.65546596893 109% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 106.607317073 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592592592593 0.547539520022 108% => OK
syllable_count: 342.9 283.868780488 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.33902439024 92% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 8.94146341463 145% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.4926829268 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.4916751999 43.030603864 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.9230769231 112.824112599 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6923076923 22.9334400587 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.46153846154 5.23603664747 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 1.69756097561 177% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.09268292683 220% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0838075458278 0.215688989381 39% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0295916311591 0.103423049105 29% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0354857463928 0.0843802449381 42% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0572048964382 0.15604864568 37% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0420255750389 0.0819641961636 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 13.2329268293 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 70.13 61.2550243902 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.9 10.3012195122 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 11.4140731707 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 40.7170731707 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.9970731707 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => 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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