The bar chart illustrates information about the percentage of items, which are in houses at 8-year intervals in 2001 and 2008.
Overall, it’s clear that the graph was almost a upward trend ,with the exception of telephone. Notably, the gap in the figures for mobile phone, home computer, Internet, and dishwasher were a high percentage, while the opposite was true for other items.
Looking at household items, whose ownership rates were not experienced so noticeable changes. Telephone was only item ,which witnessed a slight decrease over a given period from 95%, the highest rate in 2001, to 90%. There was 80% ownership rate on microwave in 2001 ,before increasing by 10 percentage points. CD player’s ownership rates rised gradually from 60% to 80%. Almost three-fifths of Americans owned in clothes dryer , before experiencing a slight rise with 70%.
Mobile phone, home computer, Internet, and dishwasher’s ownership rates, on the other hand, changed noticeably in the given period, by only increasing. Mobile phone percentage rates skyrocketed, increasing almost threefold from 25% to 70%. Home computers, which was owned by almost one-third of British population, reached to 65% by doubling. Ownership rates on Internet was 10%, before remarkably increasing by 50 percentage points. Dishwater’s ownership rates doubled, as home computer rates rose from 20% to 40% respectively.