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Benefits & pitfalls

Benefits & pitfalls: 100% stacked bar chart

  • 100% stacked bar-charts can mislead users into thinking the data values represented by the different bars are the same (as the heights of the bars are 100%). This needs to be made clear on the visualisation.

How to create your own

Create your own: 100% stacked bar chart

  • 100% stacked bar charts can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Create your own: scarf chart

  • Scarf charts are a type of stacked bar-chart, and can be created in a range of standard data applications such as Excel.

Scarf chart of income tax by income level

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This chart shows contribution towards total UK Income Tax that each income group (broken down by percentage) makes. From this, we can see that taxpayers with the highest 10% of income paid just over half of all Income Tax for the time period shown. Connectors between the columns therefore indicate each group's relative contribution.
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bar chart, scarf chart, 100% stacked bar chart