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 line chart compares the proportion of families with three types of electrical appliances from 1920 to 2019, namely washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners. The second line graph gives information about how much time people spent doing

housework

over

this

100-year period.

It is clear that

constant increases in the ownership of all three appliances can be observed in the years shown,

while

the number of

hours

used per week for

housework

keeps decreasing. In 1920 it was very rare to see a household with a refrigerator in

this

country,

while

40% and 30% of

households

owned a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner respectively. Later on, the percentage of

households

with a refrigerator rose dramatically to 90% in 1960 and reached 100% in 1980. The figure for vacuum cleaners increased slowly but steadily,

also

reaching 100% in 2000. With some fluctuations, over 70% of

households

had a washing machine in 2019. In 1920, the time they spent doing

housework

was an average of 50

hours

a week,

while

this

figure dropped to 20

hours

in 1960. And in 2019,

housework

took

households

a mere 10

hours

.