The tax 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. Task 1

The line graphs illustrate the percentage of electrical equipment in homes, and the time duration allocated for routine housework in

hours

, in a particular country, from 1020 to 2019.

Overall

, it can be seen that the number of appliances rose gradually from the beginning to the

end

of the period,

while

the

hours

spent on household chores decreased significantly. When considering the ownership of equipment, the percentage of refrigerators rose drastically from almost 0 in the beginning, to reach 100% in 1980 and remained stable throughout the period.

In addition

, the figures for vacuum cleaners grew steadily from 30% in 1920 to 100% in 2000 and stabilized till the

end

.

Besides

, the number of washing machines escalated considerably by 30% from 1920 to 1960 to reach 70%.

However

, the figures only slightly increased

thereafter

by about 10% up to the

end

.

In contrast

, the total amount of time spent on chores dropped significantly from 50

hours

in 1920 to 20

hours

in 1960. Only a slight decline can be observed

thereafter

by approximately 10

hours

, to

end

up at 10

hours

per week in 2019.