Band 6+: Writing Task 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. You should write at least 150 words.

The given bar chart provides information on the figures for the car ownership of families in an European country during three decades.

Overall, it is apparent from the graph that the percentages of households with no cars decreased gradually, while ones of families that owned 1 or 2 cars witnessed a significant upward trend over the period.

Focusing on the first category, at the 50% of houses had no car in the beginning, but this figure reduced by about 10% in 1981, after which there was also a noticeable downward change in car numbers, reaching 30% and remaining stable in the next years. As for the percentages of one car-households, there was a steady dip during the given timeframe, except for the last one when the figures rocketed up, constituting well above 40%.

As far as the numbers of families that have 2 cars are concerned, they went through fluctuations, however, in 2001, percentages doubled compared to the first year, making up a third.