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 first graph displays the percentages of households in a country that owned electrical appliances between 1920 and 2019,

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the second graph shows how much time the average

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in that country spent doing housework every week during the same period. Washing machines were the most common of the three electrical appliances in 1920, with ownership reaching 40% of households.

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increased to about 75% by 2019, with only a small dip in 1980, Nearly a third of households owned vacuum cleaners in 1920,

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the owner climbed steadily, it did not reach 100% until 2019. In comparison, almost no

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had a refrigerator in 1920.

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, ownership increased rapidly and by 1980 there was one in every

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. The amount of time spent doing housework,

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, first fell significantly from 50 to 15 hours per week per

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between 1920 and 1980. After that, it experienced only a small drop to just over 10 hours a week in 2019