The chart below illustrates the percentage of households with different electronic goods in New Zealand between 1998 and 2002. Overall , there was an upward trend in color tv , computer , cell phone , dishwasher , digital camera . Additionally , proportion of households with washing machine remained unchanged and kept the highest index while video recorder experienced a steady decrease .
Regarding the percentage of households with color tv , this accounted for 95% in 1998 reflecting a increase of 2% over 4 years later , this increase was less pronounced than that of computer and cell phone , which began at 50% and 20% in 1998 then increased 1,5-fold and 4-fold to 78% and 80% in 2002 , respectively . Likewise , 37% was seen as growth percentage in both dishwasher and digital camera to peak at 55% and 39% in 2002.
In contrast , video recorder witnessed a downward trend , which accounted for 75% in 1998 , after which the figure went down to 60% in 2002 while the figure for washing machine stayed unchanged and still recorded to be the most popular good in New Zealand house during the period
