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.

The bar graph below illustrates the proportion of owned and rented houses in England and Wales over a period of 93

years

.

Overall

, there are more rented

households

than owned in all the

years

except for 1971. Before 1971 the

number

of owned

households

decreased over the

years

, and

after

this

year, it started to increase. In 1918 there were approximately 78% rented

household

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households

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and 22% owned houses. In the next two

periods

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periods,

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the proportion remained stable at 69% and 31% for rented and owned

households

respectively. Between 1953 and 1961 the

number

of rented

accommodation

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accommodations

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dropped by 10%, which is the same amount

in

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which the

owned

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number of owned

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accommodation

increased. In 1971, both types of

accommodation

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were

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split equally, 50% each,

while

in the next ten

years

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years,

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the rented

households

rose steadily by 10% to 60%. Between 1981 and 2001 the

number

owned

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accommodation

went down to just above 20%.

Finally

,

at the end

of the period, the

number

of owned

households

rose by 5% to approximately 36%, with a drop in rented

accommodation

to 64%.