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The graph below shows the percentage of households, grouped by poverty, on the basis of access to refrigerator, electricity and water in Ghana for the year 1991/1992 to 1998/1999. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The graph below shows the percentage of households, grouped by poverty, on the basis of access to refrigerator, electricity and water in Ghana for the year 1991/1992 to 1998/1999. Summaries the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar chart illustrates the proportion of
families
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, broken up by the level of well-being, based on access to refrigerators, electricity, and
water
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 in Ghana between 1991 and 1999.
It is clear that
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 the most critical issue for the population in Ghana was the lack of refrigerators,
whereas
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water
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 was the least serious problem.
Overall
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, the level of poverty in
this
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 region decreased significantly over the period. Focusing first on the proportion of poor people based on the number of refrigerators they owned, in 19991/1992, 3% of citizens were very poor,
whereas
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for
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 poor and
nonpoor
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 groups, the corresponding figures were 10 and 24 per cent, respectively.
However
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, by 1998/1999, the percentage of
nonpoor
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 households increased by more than 10%, as opposed to a decrease of 4% in the number of poor
families
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. As for access to electricity and
water
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, in 19991/19992, roughly 50 to 60 per cent of
families
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 were very or just poor,
while
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 over 70% were
nonpoor
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. Over a 10-year period, the level of the richest
families
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 rose by more than 10%, and it dropped by nearly 10% for each of the remaining groups. Regarding the accessibility to private
water
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 pipes, in 1991/1992, between 55 and 70 per cent of households were poor or very poor,
while
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 slightly over 75% did not have these hardships. Notably, by the end of the period, the situation did not undergo significant changes, with the percentage of
nonpoor
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 people rising marginally, to 80%.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "whereas, while".
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Vocabulary: Replace the words families, water, nonpoor with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "decreased" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "significantly" was used 2 times.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • households
  • percentage
  • poverty
  • access
  • refrigerator
  • electricity
  • water
  • trends
  • analysis
  • comparison
  • improvement
  • decline
  • utility
  • income level
  • distribution
  • time frame
  • characteristics
  • levels of poverty
  • socioeconomic factors
  • infrastructure
  • basic amenities
  • living standards
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