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 how the number of

households

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that possess electrical appliances

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as washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners and the number of

hours

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dedicated to housework changed from 1920 to 2019.

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, more and more

households

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were buying domestic appliances throughout the 100-year period,

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the amount of time occupied by household chores was steadily decreasing.

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, refrigerators experienced the sharpest increase of all types of equipment and the amount of time for housework plummeted between 1920 and 1960. A closer look allows us to see that refrigerators were owned by almost no one in 1920, but by 1980 were possessed by 100 per

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of

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, overtaking washing machines and vacuum cleaners in the early 1940s. Washing machines were owned by 40 per

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of families at the beginning and experienced a 30 per

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growth by 1960

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roughly remained at the level of 70 per

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up until 2019. Vacuum cleaners started at 30 per

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in 1920 and rose sharply and steadily and by 2000 were owned by 100 per

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of

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. As for the amount of time spent on housework, in

1920

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it required 50

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per week to clean the house. By 1960

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number amounted to 20

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per week and continued to decline slowly, which resulted in approximately 10

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a week in 2019.