The bar chart shows the proportion of British families with various items in 2001 and 2008. Overall, the percentage of telephone ownership was the dominant one in 2001, while households with telephone, microwave, and CD players show the same proportion. However, the lowest percentages are responsible for the internet and dishwasher in two years.
Focusing on telephone ownership first, the figure was under 100% in 2001, while in the second year it decreased to 90%, which was the same percentage of families who had microwave and CD players in 2008. In 2001, households with microwave and CD players were 80% and 70%, respectively. As regards mobile phones, in 2001, just under 30% of families owned them, while the figure was 80% after seven years.
The percentage of British households owning a home computer was about 35% in 2001, or before; it increased just below 70% in the second year, whereas the proportion of clothes and dryer ownership increased by 10% from 2001 to 2008. The number of families with the internet was 10% in 2001, six times as high as in 2008. The amount of dishwasher ownership was 20% in 2001 before experiencing a twofold increase in 2008.