November 27, 2002

In the "The Best Information...

In the "The Best Information is the Most Prosaic Department"....


The Department of Energy has published a report on the "Effect of Income on Appliances in U.S. Households" that includes a whole lot of interesting statistics about the distribution of various household appliances based on geography, socioeconomic characteristics and household income. For example, did you know that the "percent of households with a large screen television increased from about 25 percent for the lowest income bracket to 43 percent for the highest income bracket"?


Figure 2: Percent of Housing Units Having Large Screen Televisions by Household Income


How about cable or satellite penetration by income?


Figure 3: Percent of Housing Units Connected to Cable or Satellite Television Systems by Household Income


Now, consider that fewer low-income households have a clothes washer than have cable or satellite connections....


Figure 9: Percent of Housing Units Having a Clothes Washer by Household Income


There's a lot more good stuff in this report....

Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at November 27, 2002 01:10 PM | TrackBack
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