The bar chart illustrates the proportion of different types of items used by households in a specific country from 2001 to 2008.
Overall, it is clear that telephone recorded a downward trend, while the opposite was true for others categories. In addition, the most difference was seen in the figure of mobile phone.
In 2001, the percentage of telephone stood at 95%, the highest figure, which is 15% higher than that of microwave, while CD player and clothes dryer were used at a lower rate, at 70% and 60%, respectively. In the next 8 years, the expenditure on microwaves reached a peak at 90%, being at the same rate as of CD players after rising by 20%. In the same period, the ownership of clothes dryers increased to 70% by the end. In contrast, the proportion of households that owned telephones slightly fell by 5% to 90% in 2008.
As for other categories, in the first examined year, the proportion of households that owned a home computer stood at 40%, which was double that of mobile phones, while the figures for internet and dishwasher were at 10%. In detail, the percentage of home computers saw a twofold rise to 80% in 2008, while that of mobile phones witnessed a fourfold rise from 20% to 80% in the same amount of time. Similarly, there was a notable rise to 60% in 2008, and that of dishwasher went up to 40% in the same year