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 portion of electrical appliances ownership and how long housework per

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is done by households in a country between 1920 and 2019. It can be seen that

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electrical appliances belonging had a positive growth over decades.

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, the

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of housework kept declining until reaching the lowest level.

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of the appliance had increased, starting from 1920. Refrigerators had a dramatic jump, ranking from the least favourite with only less than 10% usage to 90% 40 years later. After that, it slightly increased until it peaked at 100% ownership in 1980 and kept continuing afterwards. Vacuum cleaners followed the same positive trend with linear growth, starting from 30% usage in 1920 to 90% in 1980,

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peaking at 100% in 2000, a decade later than refrigerators.

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to the other two appliances, the washing machines percentage number gradually increased in the first two decades of observation, and

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fluctuated around 70% percentage, never reaching 100% ownership. Regarding the second chart, the length of housework steadily decreased from 50

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in 1920 to only around 15

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in 1980. The number

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plateaued for a decade until it bottomed at 10

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in 2019.