Given tables illustrate how the percentage of household ownership of a technology type was distributed among different categories of personal technologies in a city during the years 2010 and 2020.
The most frequently used technologies in a typical household of a city were desktop computers during the year 2010, and smartphones during the year 2020. Additionally, smartphones, laptops and tablets were used by a significantly larger share of households in the year 2020 than in the year 2010, compared to the decline of a desktop computers’ usage.
The table shows that the percentage of households that were in possession of a desktop computer accumulates to 70% in the year 2010, attributing the majority of 2010’s households the ownership of this type of technology. In turn, during the year 2020, the most widely used technology type was a smartphone, with the data indicating that 80% of all households within the city were recorded to own a device from this category.
Moreover, it was documented that smartphones saw an increase in usage from 2010 to 2020, with the household ownership percentage rising from 20% in 2010 to 80% in 2020, with similar trends seen in tablets’ and laptops’ possession percentage. In turn, the only device type recorded to see a decline in usage were desktop computers, with the percentage of households that owned this device amounting to 70% and 40% in the year 2010 and 2020, respectively.