Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. Jenny is conducting a research project on cell phone use. The chart shows the percentage of students, and parents of students, at Jenny's school who owned cell phone over a 14 year period. The table provides the cell phone ownership rate nationwide over the same timeframe. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The line chart illustrates the results of Jenny’s study where the proportion of students and their parents at Jenny’s school who possessed mobile phone were accounted for a period of fourteen years from 2002. The accompanying table depicts the fraction of people who owned cell phone across the nation over the same time period.

Overall, it is readily apparent that over the period, there was asubstantial rise in the number of people who owned a phone. This results were further supported by the study conducted by jenny at the school were a similar pattern of increase was observed in the number of parents who possessed phones. At 2016, a major proportion of students owned mobile phones.

To begin with, almost half of the parents had personal cell phones in 2002, but as time progressed there was a steady increase in this ratio reaching over 80% in 2016. The number of students who owned a phone was negligible in 2002. There was a gradual increase in thier number till 2006, afterwhich a steep increase was observed between 2006 to 2014. The proprtion of students who possess phone peaked in 2016 reaching three by fourth of the total count (75%).

Probing further, 60% of the population held cell phone in 2022. As time improved a rise in the ownership of phones has been observed reaching 85% in 2010. Within 6 years, almost all of the people in the country (96%) owned a mobile phone on their own.