The charts below show household spending patterns in two countries between 1980 and 2008.
The pie chart compares five categories of household expense in the UK and New Zealand in the years 1980 and 2008.
It is clear that the percentage of expenditure on Food and drink dropped significantly in both countries over the period shown whereas expenditure on utility bills increased. Besides, UK residents spent a large percentage of their household budgets on leisure than their New Zealand counterparts.
In 1980, the proportion of household budget for food and drink in the UK was lower than their New Zealand counterparts, with 23% and 29 % respectively. By 2008, spending on food and drink had fallen slightly to 25% in New Zealand and had dropped dramatically to 13% in the UK. By contrast, both countries experienced a slight rise in expenditure on utility bills for the average home, from 27% to 31% in New Zealand and from 26% to 28% in the UK.
Leisure activities occupied the vast majority of UK household expense in both years, with 34%, compared to only 17% of an average New Zealand household budget for recreation in 2008. In both countries, transport costs and other costs accounted for 15% and 10% of household budget respectively.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, if, whereas
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 2.0 7.0 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 6.8 147% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => 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: 966.0 965.302439024 100% => OK
No of words: 195.0 196.424390244 99% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95384615385 4.92477711251 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73687570622 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91115134711 2.65546596893 110% => OK
Unique words: 99.0 106.607317073 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507692307692 0.547539520022 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 277.2 283.868780488 98% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.114634146341 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.33902439024 46% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.4926829268 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.5136329844 43.030603864 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.75 112.824112599 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.375 22.9334400587 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.23603664747 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
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 : 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: 0.147036447949 0.215688989381 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757478533952 0.103423049105 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0533137107061 0.0843802449381 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111321361894 0.15604864568 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0556742706387 0.0819641961636 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.2329268293 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 61.2550243902 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 11.4140731707 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.06136585366 100% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 40.7170731707 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.4329268293 96% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.9970731707 105% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.0658536585 108% => 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.