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.

The first line graph shows how the number of electrical appliances in homes in a country changed over a hundred years starting from 1920. The second graph displays how

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affected the amount of time people spent on

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chores each week in the same country. With more electrical devices being owned by

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, their demand for

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chores has decreased significantly. Based on the graph, just 30% of households in

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country used to have vacuum cleaners, and four out of ten

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had washing machines in 1920. Refrigerators were uncommon at that time. Just after 20 years, the possession of refrigerators increased significantly, with almost half of the households owning these three electric appliances. More

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began to purchase

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devices, and by the beginning of the twenty-first century, almost every

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had fridges and vacuum cleaners. Over 70% of households owned washing machines, and

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figure steadily increased until 2019. At that stage, hardly any family did not own a refrigerator or vacuum cleaner.

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, as more

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acquire electric appliances, the requirement for performing

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tasks

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as cooking, tidying, and laundry has significantly reduced. In 1920, they dedicated 50 hours every week to

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chores, which reduced to 20 hours in 1960 and

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fell to 10 hours in 2019.