The pie charts give the information about the household expenditure on seven items in American in the years 1966 and 1996.
It is clearly seen that food and cars counts for a major part in US spending patterns in both years, although the expenditure on food saw a dramatic decrease by 1996. Also, more American citizens tent to spent their money on computers and restaurants.
In 1966, 44% of an American household budget went to food, which was the largest proportion comparing to other categories. Over the following 30 years, however, the percentage of money American family spent on food fell by 30%, whereas the figure on cars saw a sharp rise of 22%. In both years, furniture costs and petrol costs took roughly 9% and 8% of household spending respectively.
There was a dramatic increase in the percentage of money expanding on computers between 1966 and 1996, rising from 1% to 10%. The similar phenomenon happened on restaurants costs, increasing to 14% in 1996. Nevertheless, the 30 years period saw a decrease of 5% in the books expense.
- The charts below show US spending patterns between 1966 and 1996 78
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, nevertheless, so, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => 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: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 33.7804878049 98% => 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: 883.0 965.302439024 91% => OK
No of words: 179.0 196.424390244 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93296089385 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77420290201 2.65546596893 104% => OK
Unique words: 105.0 106.607317073 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586592178771 0.547539520022 107% => OK
syllable_count: 252.9 283.868780488 89% => 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: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.4926829268 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.3086998063 43.030603864 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.1111111111 112.824112599 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8888888889 22.9334400587 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44444444444 5.23603664747 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 3.70975609756 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.09268292683 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.196808380189 0.215688989381 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.072792374439 0.103423049105 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06930239106 0.0843802449381 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121185693836 0.15604864568 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043960141208 0.0819641961636 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.2329268293 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 61.2550243902 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.3012195122 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 11.4140731707 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.06136585366 96% => OK
difficult_words: 36.0 40.7170731707 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.9970731707 87% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => 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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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.