text: 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 .
  
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  Table 6 shows the number of bills per household in the United States .