11.   Consider the credit card offers that bombard the average household.

12.   Each year, the average Chinese household shoots a little less than half a roll of film.

13.   For decades, though, air-conditioning remained rare in average households.

14.   For the first time in decades, the average American household has more of its wealth invested in stocks than in real estate.

15.   If those are not all household names, it is at least partly because poetry is not high on the reading list in the average American household.

16.   Indeed, market researchers here estimate that the average Venezuelan household spends a fifth of its income on personal care and grooming products.

17.   New housing starts are a benchmark of consumer confidence as buying a home is the greatest expense an average household will have.

18.   Not only do two-thirds of the affluent have a home PC, but the average affluent household owns two.

19.   That means the average household now owes more than two months of its yearly income, noted Wyss.

20.   The average household now has more than four remote controls, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.