Three out of four households in the United States had television sets in February 1956, according to the results of a sample survey made by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. About 73 percent of all United States households had one or more TV sets. There was an increase of six percentage points over the 67 percent of households with television sets in June 1955 when the Bureau of the Census made a similar survey. This increase in television households in eight months is a continuation of the rapid expansion of television which has taken place since the beginning of the decade. In 1950, the first time that a question on television was included in a census, only 12 percent of all households had television sets.