The chart below displays the shares of expenditure on selected categories in the United States, Canada, the UK and Japan in 2009.
The bar graph compares the percentage of money spent on food, housing, transportation, health care and clothing in four different countries in 2009.
Overall, all nations spent the most on housing in 2009 except for Japan, which the highest expenditure was on food. While Canada and the UK spent the least on health care, the United States of America allocated it on clothing, but for Japan, it was the same for both of these categories.
The USA spent the biggest percentage of money on housing at just over a quarter in the given year. Similarly, Canada's spending was approximately a fifth and the United Kingdom was just under 25%. Japan was noted to have the highest percentage of spending on food compared to other countries at roughly 23%. With regard to transportation, Canada's expenditure was the biggest overall at 20%.
Both the Canadians and the British spent the lowest proportion of money on health care, at nearly 5% and about 1% respectively. In comparison to the Americans, they spent the least on clothing at roughly 5%, whereas for Japanese, it was equal on both of these items at almost 5%.
- The government should offer free prenatal classes for expecting parents. Do you agree or disagree? 73
- The bar below shows the estimated percentage of car trips taken by drivers in 2005. 78
- The graph below shows the participation of children in selected leisure activities in Australia. 73
- The graph below shows the quantities of goods transported in the UK between 1974 and 2002 by four modes of transport. 84
- The bar graph below shows the estimated percentage of car trips taken by drivers in 2005. 56
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, similarly, so, whereas, while, as for, except for, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 7.0 100% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 6.8 88% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 6.0 5.60731707317 107% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 33.7804878049 110% => 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: 935.0 965.302439024 97% => OK
No of words: 190.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92105263158 4.92477711251 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71268753763 3.73543355544 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74079168456 2.65546596893 103% => OK
Unique words: 100.0 106.607317073 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.526315789474 0.547539520022 96% => OK
syllable_count: 277.2 283.868780488 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 1.53170731707 196% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.33902439024 69% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.482926829268 207% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 3.36585365854 89% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.8647527253 43.030603864 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.888888889 112.824112599 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1111111111 22.9334400587 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.22222222222 5.23603664747 157% => OK
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 : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.118614802116 0.215688989381 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0568429258876 0.103423049105 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507406709761 0.0843802449381 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0743294106359 0.15604864568 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0644821525735 0.0819641961636 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 13.2329268293 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 61.2550243902 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 11.4140731707 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 40.7170731707 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.