The line graph highlights data on how many computers each household in a European country owns during fourteen years since 1997.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that the figures for households possessing one computer only was the lowest in almost all years. In addition, the proportion of families having at least one computer increased whereas the household without computers had a completely opposite trend.
Regarding the households that possessed two computers and the computer-less household, the rate of households that did not own any computer began at around 50%, which was higher than nearly 45% of households with multiple computers, 5% of households with two computers, and 1% of households with one computer. In spite of witnessing a fluctuation, the percentage of homes without computers dropped steadily year by year and decreased to approximately 31% in 2006. After that, the rate of families that did not possess any computers increased modestly to about 34% in 2007. Eventually, the ratio of computer-less households fell speedily and hit the lowest point at about 22% in 2011. On the other hand, the percentage of households owning two computers steadily increased from around 5% to approximately 28% over the years.
In terms of households that owned one computer only and those that had three or more computers, the rate of the proportion of families having one computer only plateaued at around 1% between 1997 and 2000. From 2001 to 2011 underwent a marginal rise by around 3% of 10% in the figures for households that possessed one computer. As far as households with three or more computers were concerned, the rate of these households was nearly 44% at first, which was lower than the ratio of families without computers. Afterwards, the figures for families owned three or more computers was almost no change at about 45% and held the highest percentage most of the time.