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 shows the percentages of

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that owned electrical appliances in one country between 1920 and 2019,

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the second graph illustrates how much

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the average household in that country spent doing housework every week during the same period.

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,

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of all three appliances increased during

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period, with that

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refrigerators having the greatest growth. At the same

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, the amount of

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spent on housework decreased. Washing machines were the most common of the three electrical appliances in 1920, with

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reaching 40% of

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.

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rose to about 75% by 2019, with a small dip in 1980. Nearly a third of

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owned vacuum cleaners in 1920.

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ownership

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climbed steadily, it did not reach 100% until 2000. In comparison, almost no

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had a refrigerator in 1920.

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,

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increased rapidly and by 1980 there was one in every household. The amount of

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spent doing housework,

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, first fell significantly from 50 to 15 hours per week per household between 1920 and 1980. After that, it experienced only a small drop to just over 10 hours a week in 2019.