You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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. Write at least 150 words.

The provided line charts illustrate the percentage of

households

using three distinct electrical appliances and the number of weekly

hours

spent doing

housework

, including washing clothes, preparing meals and cleaning, of each household in a country over the course of 99 years starting from 1920.

Overall

, it is discernible from the charts that there was a general upward trend in the percentages of these electrical appliances' users and the amount of time spent handling

housework

by

households

dropped significantly in the whole period shown. In 1920,

while

there were 30% and 40% of

households

owning refrigerators and washing machines, there was no one using vacuum cleaners and every household spent around 50

hours

weekly on average doing

housework

. In the following 40 years, the proportions of

households

owning each of these tools increased drastically and they only had to spend just about 20

hours

a week for their

housework

in 1960. During

this

period, vacuum cleaners became the most popular appliance among the three studied ones with 90% of

households

using them

whereas

the figures for refrigerators and washing machines both stood at 70%. From 1960 onwards,

while

the percentages of

households

using washing machines and vacuum cleaners continued to rise and finished at 100% in the final year, the figure for refrigerators fluctuated before finishing at approximately 74% in 2019. Meanwhile,

households

spent a lesser amount of time every week handling their

housework

over the years. In 2019, each household only spent just around 11

hours

per week on these tasks.