When a survey was conducted throughout the citizens of the United States, it was found that over 99% of all households in America own at least one television. Out of those citizens that did, 66% of them owned more than three televisions. On average, an American household owns 2.24 televisions. When the interaction between children and their parents were surveyed, it was found that youths prefer watching television over discussing personal issues with their parents. For many children, television was elected as their favorite activity. Compared to education, the ratio of the number of hours they spend in school to the number of hours they watch television annually was 900:1500 (California State University, Northridge). Information from the census denotes that an average family as 3.85 family members (United States Census). Using the previous information researched, one can conclude that each person has 2.24 ÷ 3.85 = 0.581 televisions for themselves.