Ideas about the objects of the luxury change

Americans are not capable of manage without the automobile (so they consider 91% of adult inhabitants of the country), washing machine (90%) and drying machine for linen (83%). Also burn in the number of objects most necessary for the normal life: conditioner (70%), microwave furnace (68%), television set (64%), computer (51%), cell phone (49%) and dishwasher machine (35%). These data gave the interrogation, carry ouied Pew Research Center.

For the last time similar questions were assigned to Americans in 1996 (then a study conducted newspaper Washington Post and Harvard University). The specific changes occurred in the decade: the inhabitants OF THE USA began to somewhat less value automobile, but is considerably more - microwave furnace, computer and dishwasher machine.

Those interrogated they also requested to estimate - is one or other device or another the object of luxury or basic commodity. Interrogation confirmed known truth that the ideas about the luxury constantly change. For example, in the middle 1990- X it is annual mikrovolnovku was considered vitally important object only more than 30% those interrogated - now it is more into two and the more of times.

Now young people elderly, considerably more frequent than call basic commodities IT- goods - cell phones, computers, MP3-pleery, etc. exception is here only the television set, whose value recognize the representatives of absolutely all ages. Furthermore, it was explained that the need for the computer grows in parallel with raising formation level, and the higher the income of American, the less the quantity of devices he calls the "objects of luxury". One additional curious observation: men considerably more frequent than women call "vitally necessary" dishwasher machine and to mikrovolnovku.