78.The charts below shows the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one ocuntry between 1920 and 2019. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant

78.The charts below shows the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in households in one ocuntry between 1920 and 2019. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant
The line graphs below illustrate the percentage of
households
with electrical appliances and the
hours
people spent doing housework between 1920 and 2019.
Overall
, over the
years
, an increasing number of
households
had electrical appliances,
while
the time spent doing housework dropped. Refrigerators experienced a steady rise, with around 1% of
households
having one in 1920, about 55% in 1940, 90% in 1960 and
finally
from 1980 until 2019 all
households
had a refrigerator. The percentage of
households
with vacuum cleaners experienced a sharp increase from 1920 to 1980, each 20
years
there was an increase of 20% of
households
with a vacuum cleaner, and from 2000, all families had one. The number of
households
with washing machines rose significantly in the first 40
years
, from 40% to 70%,
then
experienced a small decline before it continued growing to 75% in 2019. The time that people spent doing housework dropped dramatically between 1920 and 1980, from 50
hours
a week to around 15
hours
, which remained stable in the next 20
years
, but
then
it started to fall modestly to just over 10
hours
in 2019.
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