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

The bar graph illustrates the proportion of both owned and rented accommodation in households in England and Wales from 1918 to 2011.

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, we can see clearly that the lowest percentage of owned

family

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families

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was 22% in 1918

whereas

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the rented

household

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households

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had the highest number

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78%.

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the

people

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number of people

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who

buy

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bought

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the

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a

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house went up from 22% to 69% in 83

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, which was followed by a rapid decrease over the next 10

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. Contrary to that, the rented accommodation is totally inverted to the owned ones. It was at its peak at the beginning of the period and the number dropped from 78% to 31%,

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climbed up to 36% until 2011.

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, the difference between the two living accommodation types was the largest at the start of the whole observation, about 56%. After 53

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of economic development, these two

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percentages

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became equal at respectively 50%. In the following 10

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, the house owner continued to increase until reached

28

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a 28

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% surplus.