The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and the 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 two given charts illustrate the proportion of families that possessed electrical appliances and the time households allocated for housework every week in a nation from 1920 to 2019.

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there was an upward trend

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owning electrical devices in the country. Notably, in the final year, all households possessed a fridge and vacuum cleaner, despite in the first times just a few houses decorated two items.

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, the time spent on doing housework

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as washing clothes, preparing meals and cleaning declined significantly over the period. In 1920, only 30% of families in

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country had vacuum cleaners,

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almost non-households equipped refrigerators. Just after two decades,

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, there was a notable increase, half of families owned the devices in their homes. The percentages of

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and vacuum cleaners continuously surged to 100% in 2000 and

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levelling off until the final year.

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, the figure for washing machines stood at 40% in the first year and increased gradually by 30% in 1960, before experiencing a fluctuation period of about 5% from 1960 to 2000. In 2019, the washing machine rate recovered to 70%. Looking at the second graph in detail, one can see that the amount of time spent on housework was 50 hours per week in 1920. After 20 years, though, there was a sharp decrease to 1.5 times. The figure

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continuously declined and ended at 10 hours by the end of the period.