This statistic illustrates what households did with regards to their provider when they took out their current home insurance policy in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2015, for both all households and those households at risk of flooding. It can be seen that 36 percent of at risk households stated that they switched provider when taking out their current policy.
When you took out your current home insurance policy, which of the following best describes what you did?
* According to the source: 'Note that for this report ‘households’ includes owner occupiers (freeholders and leaseholders) social housing and privately rented tenants.' **At risk households are defined as those addresses that have a medium or high risk of flooding.
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