The bar chart compares the percentage of two different types of household --- owned and rented --- in England and Wales between 1918 and 2011.
Overall
, the percentage of people owning a house in these countries seemed to rise in the given years, as opposed to the trend of the people who rented one. Linking Words
To begin
with, the rate of owned accommodations started off with less than 25% in 1918 before continuously improving in the following year, reaching its peak at almost 70% in 2001. Linking Words
However
, the popularity of owning a residence dropped to 65% approximately in the next decade. Linking Words
On the other hand
, the proportion of renting a house went down from the highest percentage, close to 80% in Linking Words
1918
to slightly over 30% in 2001 before gradually rising back again to over 30% in the next ten years. In short, as time went by, people were likely to prefer buying houses to renting ones.Punctuation problem
1918,