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.

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.
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The line graphs illustrate the number of households with electrical appliances and how much time was spent on housework every week during the period from 1920 to 2019.
It is clear that
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there was an upward tendency in the total of homes equipped with electric devices,
whereas
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the opposite was true for the amount of time people used on chores throughout the observed period. As can be seen, there was just a small percentage of houses using different modern devices. The washing machines were recorded to be at the top of the list with 40% in 1920,
while
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the figure for the vacuum cleaners was 30%. Over a century, refrigerators soared sharply to 100% after witnessing no data in 1920.
Likewise
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, vacuum cleaners and washing machines
also
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became more popular in 2019 as the sum of those rose to 100% and over 70% respectively. Regarding the next graph, people spent 50 hours weekly doing housework in 1920.
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, the total of that decreased significantly by 30% over the following 40 years and
then
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remained stable before reaching a low of only 10% in 2019.
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Vocabulary: The word "graphs" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • ownership
  • electrical appliances
  • housework
  • time frame
  • variables
  • trends
  • significant milestones
  • turning points
  • correlation
  • reduction
  • influenced
  • societal implications
  • quality of life
  • gender roles
  • economic implications
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