The chart below shows the percentage of households in owned and rented accommodation in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

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bar graph illustrates the percentages of rented and owned households in England and Wales that were evaluated from 1918 to 2011. The time series does not include all years in that period,

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shows only nine of them, which each gap being approximately 10-20 years. In general, the number of rental and individual houses was changing constantly throughout

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period. On one side, people who bought residences significantly increased by around three times from the first observed year. It rose from less than 25% in 1981 to more than 65% in 2011.

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, regularly paid households were repeatedly depleted. It shrank nearly half from the start. If we looked properly from 1953 to 1991, both events had the exact opposite pattern. It demonstrated not only the continually increasing or decreasing proportions of the two types of housing but

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the same ratio in each dropped and rose, which was as much as 10%.

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, the year 2001 was the anomaly pattern in either subject. It fell not far from 5% for purchased households,

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it rose to almost 8% for the others. In conclusion, people in England and Wales preferred to buy houses rather than keep renting.