The provided bar graph illustrates the proportion of households owning different appliances in one European country in 2004 and 2008.
What is most striking when looking at the data is that almost products observed an upward trends in prossesion rate, leaving aside telephone, whose figure declined. It is also important to note that TV consistently the most favoured item in both year surveyed, contrasting sharply with dish washer, which was the least common household appliance.
Looking first at the categories with modest increase, in 2004, the possession rate of TV was north of 90%. This figure was followed by those for CD player, microwave, clothes dryer, and dish washer, at around 72%, 68%, 66%, 50%, and 26%, respectively. Interestingly, by 2008, the percentage of each product had increased by 5%.
More pronounced rises were seen in the figure for home computer and mobile phone. The former had observed an two-fold increase between to examined year, from around 35% to approximately 70%. The growth in the ownership rate of mobile phone even more substantial, almost tripling from around 30% in 2004 to approximately 83% four years later, which was the largest increase observed throughout the examined period.
In contrast, the proportion of household possessed telephone saw an opposite pattern. In detail, despite falling from 87% to 85% between 2004 and 2008, it remained the second most popular product.