The graph illustrates the proportion of households that owned computers, including no computer, one computer only, two computers, and three or more computers, in one European nation from 1997 to 2011.
Overall, it is clear that there was an upward trend in the percentage of households that had more than one computer, while an opposite trend was seen in the figure for households that did not own computers. In addition, the proportion of households that possessed one computer only witnessed a fluctuation during this time.
Looking first at no computers and three or more computers, the proportion of households that did not have computers was ranked first, at around 47%. In comparison, around 44% was the percentage of families having three or more computers in 1997. After 8 years, the figure for households not owning computers experienced a significant decrease from 47% to over 30%. Besides, the proportion of families possessing more than two computers fluctuated between 44% and 45%. In 2006, there was a slight rise from around 30% to around 35% in the proportion of families not using computers before falling to about 20% in 2011, while this nation saw a fluctuation between 45% and 46% in the figure for households using three or more computers.
Turning to one computer only and two computers, the percentage of families having one computer only captured the lowest point in 1997, at about 1%, while there was around 8% of households owning two computers at the same time. Additionally, a moderate growth from 8% to around 12% was seen in the percentage of households having two computers from 1997 to 1999. Besides, there was stability in the proportion of households that only owned one computer between 1997 and 1999. Finally, these corresponding figures experienced a substantial increase from 8% to under 30% for two computers and 1% to around 10% for one computer only.