The chart below shows the changes in the percentage of households with cars in one European country between 1971 and 2001.Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart depicts the variation in the proportion of households owning cars in a specific European country from 1971 to 2001.

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, it can be seen that the majority of the population did not have cars in the first ten years

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that of owning one

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dominated in the

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period. Starting at around half of the total households, the figure for no

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experienced a decline from 1971 to 1981, reaching over 40% before remaining stable in the

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two point years (30%). During the same period, the

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of families in one European country who have

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a single

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car

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recorded an upward trend from 35% in 1971 to

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nearly 20

% in 1991 whilst after that

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number skyrocketed to 42%, showing the largest figure among all categories in 2001.

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, the remaining category, which

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car

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cars

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was quite volatile. In 1997,

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rate became the smallest figure before climbing

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29% in the next ten years.

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,

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dropped to 21% and

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again in 2001, accounting

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same rate with no

car

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ownership (30%).