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.

There are two line charts illustrating the changes in the proportion of households with three types of electrical appliances and the time spent on housework each week in a country. The percentage of houses having these three appliances all witnessed an upward trend. In spite of some fluctuation, there was an increase in the scale of washing machines, rising from 40% in 1920 to 71% in 2019.

Besides

, a significant growth could be seen in the ratio of refrigerators, increasing from 0% in 1920 to 100% in 1980, and

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the figure for washing machines in 1940, before remaining constant until 2019. Similar to the refrigerator, the percentage of vacuum cleaners

also

showed an enormous rise, from 30% in 1920 to 100% in 2019. In terms of the number of

hours

of housework per week, after declining from 50

hours

in 1920 to 18

hours

in 1980,

this

figure basically kept plateau at 15

hours

.

Overall

, in the years between 1920 and 2019, more and more homes have these three electrical appliances and spend fewer

hours

on routine housework.