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

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over

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100-year period.

It is clear that

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

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the number of

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used per week for

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

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country,

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40% and 30% of

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

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

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

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

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was an average of 50

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a week,

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figure dropped to 20

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in 1960. And in 2019,

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took

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a mere 10

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