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 graphs illustrate the shifts in using electrical gadgets and spending

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on completing housework in households within a nation in the period of 99 years from 1920.

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, the rise in the number of electrical devices was inversely proportional to the decrease in the amount of

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spent on chores. In 1920, the proportion of washing machine and vacuum cleaner users predominated at 40% and 30% respectively

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that of refrigerators was nearly 0%.

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, in the next 60 years, there were enormous changes in appliances usages when the percentage of families using refrigerators surpassed the others with a rise of 90 per cent.

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of the period, despite the highest starting point, the washing machine was the least device to be used by families, standing at about 65%. Fridge and vacuum had been witnessing a significant increase by 100% and 70% respectively. In the same period of

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, the number of hours of doing chores per week experienced a downward movement. In the following 40-year interval, there was a considerable decline from 50 hours to 20 hours per week. From 1960 to 2019, the amount of week

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accounted for preparing meals or cleaning was as a fifth as it started.