The bar chart illustrate proportions of students’ accomodation from 1980 to 2000 with the number measured in percentage. Overall, most of the students preferred room in a share house, while fewer number of students lived with family at home.
At the beginning of the first decade, most students lived in a room in a shared house and as paying guest with a host family, standing at 35% both. In the following years, the percentage of students living in a shared house experienced a gradual rise, and hit a high of 78% in 2000 which was the greatest of all period. In contrast, those students who preferred to live as paying guest showed a slow decrease at 5% in 2000, which was the lowest of that period.
In 1980, the small number of students lived in students hall of residence and with family at home, displaying only 5%. However, students hall of residence experienced a significant fluctuation of 28 percent and finished at above 10 percent. Similarly, the ratio of students who preferred to live at home with family, declined gradually and stablized at 5 percent in 1980, and finished at the same students of hall residence had.