§ Mr. CarmichaelTo ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 15 March 2004,Official Report, columns 57–8W, on television ownership, what estimates her Department has made of the number of United Kingdom households that do not own a television in each of the last 10 years. [163307]
§ Estelle MorrisThe estimated number of households without a television in the United Kingdom in each of the last ten years is set out in the following table:
March Thousands of households1,2 1994 646 1995 662 1996 6923 1997 664 1998 646 1999 641 2000 625 2001 599 2002 544 2003 515 1 Based on data from the British Audience Research Board and from official estimates of numbers of Households 2Revisions to data prior to 2001 are expected as official household estimates for these years are to be revised. 3The higher figure in 1996 may not be reliable. Since the percentage of households not owning a television is small, the survey measuring this is inevitably prone to the incidence of sampling variation.