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A glance at the graph provided indicates the alteration in car proprietorship in Great Britian during the
time period from 1961 to 2001.It is evident from the information in the figure that thisarea saw
considerable fluctuations in the possession of citizen’s car during the time in question.

Decreasing from approximately 65% in 1961 to 45% in 1971, the rate of people without as car then
plunged to a low of just 35%in 1981. The latter 2 decades, however, brought a sustained decline to
around 28% in 2001, the lowest overall.

The rate of families with 2 or more cars , nonetheless,having an opposite trend.Not a single household
possessed 2 or more cars in 1961, but this figure stood at 11% and 14% in 1971 and 1981
respectively.This was followed by a period of exponential growth , with the proportion of families with 2
or more cars reaching a peak of 29% in 2001, the second highest.

The percentage of British families who owned 1 car experienced a diffirent tendency, growing from 35%
in 1961 to 50%in 1981 before bringing a sustained decline somewhere in the vicinity 44% in 2001 .

It is interesting to note that British citizens increasingly owned 2 or more cars and it seemed that the
proportion of no one owning a car was significantly reduced.

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