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 chart provided information about differences in time consumption on housework and the proportion of electrical appliances. Most notably, the percentage of households with three electrical appliances all experienced an increase over the period. Specifically, in terms of refrigerators, almost no household owned

this

appliance dramatically climbed to 90% in 1960. Since 1980, having a refrigerator had become commonplace with no family being the exception.

Likewise

, there was

also

a growth from 30% in 1920 to 90% in 1980 in the percentage of household vacuum cleaners, which overtook the figure for washing machines in 1960(60%). In 2000, having a vacuum cleaner was as popular as owning a refrigerator and

this

trend remained unchanged until 2019.

However

, it took nearly a century for the ownership of washing machines to grow from 40% to nearly 70%, which experienced a slight decline from 1960 to 1980.

In contrast

, a decline occurred in the number of

hours

of housework per week, per household. After the peak of 50

hours

in 1920, a slump to 20

hours

in 1960 could be seen and stabilized at around 15

hours

per week during the

last

40 years.

Overall

, with the popularity of electrical appliances, people in

this

country lived a convenient and comfortable life, which could be reflected by decreasing time spent on housework.