The bar graphs illustrate the percentage of households having eight alternative goods in Europe in 2004 and 2008.
Overall, in both years, the percentage of families using Tv was the highest, followed by telephone, whereas the dishwasher was the least used. Compared to 2004, higher proportion of people handled different type of equipment in 2008.
In 2008, residents had maximum proportion of TV at 99%, followed by telephone and mobile phone at 91% and 88% respectively, while in 2004, TV and telephone had the highest position, accounting for 92%. The number of mobile phone and home computer used by people in 2008 saw the most significant growth compared to 2004. Below 35% of domestic units used dishwasher in couple of those years. 75% of households owned CD player. Microwave and cd player usage increased step by step in both years.
