The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical apliances and amount of time spent doing in households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarises the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparison where relevant.

The line graphs illustrate data about possessing electrical appliances by families, and the amount of

time

they spent doing housework in a particular country, over a century, from 1920 to 2019.

Overall

,

while

the

rate

of electrical machine ownership grew over

time

, the number of hours people had to spend doing housework declined. In 1920, 30% of families owned

vacuum

cleaners. The

rate

for washing machines was slightly higher, at 40%. It is interesting that almost no family had a refrigerator in 1920. Over the next 20 years, the proportion of households which owned a refrigerator jumped to more than 50% and took over the figure for the

vacuum

cleaner, which was at 50%. The washing machine’s possessing

rate

also

improved to 60%. Looking at the amount of

time

people spent doing chores in the same

time

frame, it decreased from 50 hours per week in 1920 to well under 40 in 1940. By 1960, both figures for washing machines and

vacuum

cleaners had reached 70%. The percentage of owning refrigerators rose sharply to 90%.

However

, over the next 20 years, it peaked at 100% and remained constant until the end of the period in question. The

rate

for

vacuum

cleaners continued to improve until 2000 when it rose to 100% and remained steady. The proportion of people who possessed washing machines witnessed a slight reduction in 1980

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but continued to rise slowly until it reached more than 70% in 2019. In 1960, households used to spend 20 hours per week doing housework. Despite experiencing a drop to less than 20 in 1980,

then

the figure remained the same until 2000

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when it fell to 10.