The chart shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011

The bar chart gave information about the

proportion

of

households

in owned and

people

rented

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housing in two countries, namely England and Wales over a period of 94 years, starting from 1918 to 2011.

Overall

, it can be seen that the

percentage

of

people

owning housing

was

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slightly decreased year by year.

However

, the opposite was true for

households

in rented accommodation .

Also

, the figure for

people

owned

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housing was similar compared to the rate of

people

rented

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who rented

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housing. The

proportion

of

households

in owned housing decreased slightly from 76% to 68% in the first 21 years. The

percentage

of

people

who owned housing was highest in 1918, the opposite was true for the rate of

people

who rented housing. The

proportion

of

households

in owned accommodation witnessed a stable trend of 68% between 1939 and 1953. That was a considerable fall of about 40%. The figure was similar to the rate of

people

who rented housing in 1971. The

percentage

of

people

who owned housing was a slight decrease

of

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about 5% from 2001 to 2011. The

percentage

of

households

in rented housing slightly decreased by about 10%. That was a stable trend of more than 65% between 1939 and 1953. The figure was a sharp increase of nearly 40% over a period of 63 years starting from 1939 to 2001. There was a marginal fall

by

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approximately 5% from 2001 to 2011. The

proportion

of

people

who rented was highest in 2001,

in contrast

to rented housing was rented .