The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line charts illustrate the proportion of household equipment

ownerships

Fix the agreement mistake

ownership

show examples

regarding three distinct devices and how many hours per week

dedicate

Wrong verb form

are dedicated

show examples

to domestic work on average in a particular nation over a decade period beginning from 1920 to 2019. Looking from an

overall

Linking Words

perspective, it is readily apparent that the figure for ownership of all electrical appliances experienced significant growth with refrigerators and

vacuum

Use synonyms

cleaners becoming the most ubiquitous.

However

Linking Words

, a reversed trend could be observed in the amount of time allocated for doing housework.

According to

Linking Words

the first chart, by the time the refrigerator arrived in 1920, laundry machines and

vacuum

Use synonyms

cleaners must have already been owned by 40% and 30% of families, respectively. Over the next 4 decades, the popularity of the refrigerator witnessed a dramatic increase, surpassing two other mechanical consumer durables

due to

Linking Words

be accepted in 90% of homes.

This

Linking Words

ratio was 20 per cent higher than that of washing machine and

vacuum

Use synonyms

cleaner ownership which rose at the same pace. From 1980 onwards, almost all families installed refrigerators and

vacuum

Use synonyms

cleaners,

varied

Wrong verb form

varying

show examples

from 90% to 100%. Meanwhile, in 1980, the percentage of

the

Correct article usage

apply

show examples

household

Fix the agreement mistake

households

show examples

utilising laundry

machine

Fix the agreement mistake

machines

show examples

experienced a slight decline by 5%, but

then

Linking Words

increased to approximately 75%

at the end

Linking Words

of

surveyed

Correct article usage

the surveyed

show examples

phase Regarding the second chart, in the starting year, each family spent 50 hours per week on household chores, which dropped

a

Change preposition

to a

show examples

low of 20 hours in 1960. Since

then

Linking Words

,

this

Linking Words

figure underwent several highs and lows over the following

40-years

Fix the agreement mistake

40-year

show examples

stage and started to decrease to merely 10% in 2019.