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.

There is a line chart that illustrates the proportion changes of families who owned or rented accommodations in England and Wales from 1981 to 2011. Looking from an

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perspective, it is apparent that a contrary variation of the amount of these two types of families took place during the 93 years(1918-2011). On the one hand, the

households

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who

prefered

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preferred

renting houses decreased as time went by.

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, the

families

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number of families

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who chose to buy their own houses increased meanwhile. It is

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noteworthy that the two groups reached the same figure at 50% in 1971. In terms of the households in rented accommodations, the percentage peaked at about 78% in 1918, which could be 56% higher than the other group. The data remained unchanged at 59% until 1961,

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the following four decades witnessed a dramatic decline from 59% to its nadir of 30%. The rate slightly rose

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to 36% in the next year(2011). As for households in owned accommodations, there were just 22%

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of people

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who chose

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option in 1918. It stabilized at 31% from 1939 to 1953.

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, there was a significant increase of 31% to its zenith of 69% during 48 years(1953-2001). After that, the proportion

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dropped

a little bit by about 4% in 2011.