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.

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The line graphs illustrate the percentage of electrical equipment in homes, and the time duration allocated for routine housework in
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, in a particular country, from 1020 to 2019.
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, it can be seen that the number of appliances rose gradually from the beginning to the
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of the period,
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the
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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.
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, the figures for vacuum cleaners grew steadily from 30% in 1920 to 100% in 2000 and stabilized till the
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.
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, the number of washing machines escalated considerably by 30% from 1920 to 1960 to reach 70%.
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, the figures only slightly increased
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by about 10% up to the
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.
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, the total amount of time spent on chores dropped significantly from 50
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in 1920 to 20
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in 1960. Only a slight decline can be observed
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by approximately 10
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, to
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up at 10
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per week in 2019.

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