Premise: Finally, a comparison of annual growth rates for 1993-97 in Table 3 with those in Table 6 shows the  (a) the 5.9 percent annual decrease of the total number of payments in Table 3 has been augmented to a 7.2 percent annual decrease of the number of payments per household in Table 6; and (b) the 1.0 percent annual increase of total number of bills in Table 3 has shrunk to a 0.3 percent annual decrease of the number of bills per household in Table 6.

Hypothesis: Finally, a comparison of weekly growth rates for 1995-96.
Relation: contradiction