The bar chart provides information on the proportion of households owning different goods in one particular European country in two years: 2004 and 2008.
What is the most striking when looking at the data is that telephone was the only category witnessing a decline in ownership, whereas the rest saw their figures increasing by varying degrees. It is also important to note that TV was the most popular item in both years surveyed, contrasting sharply with dishwasher, which was the least common household item.
Looking first at the categories with modest increases, in 2004, it was reported that roughly 95% of families had TV at home. This figure was followed by those for CD player, microwave, clothes dryer, and dishwasher, at around 72%, 65%, 60%, and 27%, respectively. Interestingly, by 2008, the percentage for each of these categories had increased by approximately 5%.
More pronounced rises were seen in the categories of home computer and mobile phone. The former saw a twofold increase in ownership between the two years examined, with its figure reaching 70% by 2008. The growth in the proportion of households having a mobile phone was even more substantial, tripling from around 30% in 2004 to 85% 4 years later.
Finally, the only group to experience a decline in popularity was telephone, falling from around 92% to 90% between 2004 and 2008. Notwithstanding this, it remained as the second most popular household item in the survey.