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

The charts illustrate developments in the possession of household equipment and the load of weekly chores for each family from 1920 to 2019.

Overall

,

it is clear that

as technological devices became more prevalent, the amount of time dedicated to housework declined significantly. It is

also

notable that the use of refrigerators witnessed the most remarkable growth throughout the period shown. In 1920, washing machines were the most popular piece of equipment, appearing in 40% of households.

This

was followed by the figure for vacuum cleaners, standing at 30%

while

that

of

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refrigerators was adjacent to 0%. In the

next

20 years, the use of washing machines and vacuum cleaners witnessed a moderate rise, meeting

at

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the same record of 70% in 1960.

Subsequently

, the percentage of households with vacuum cleaners continued to climb to a peak of 100%

whereas

that of washing

machine

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dropped slightly in 1980 prior to a slow recovery to 75% in 2019. Meanwhile, the popularity of refrigerators skyrocketed in a span of 60 years before levelling out at 100% for the rest of the period.

Along with

the growth in the prevalence of household appliances, the number of

hours

devoted to housework in each family more than halved in the first 40 years of the period, from 50

hours

to only 20

hours

. From 1960 onwards,

this

figure continued to go down but at a slower pace, eventually hitting the lowest point of 10

hours

in 2019.