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 selectiong and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts illustrate the percentages of households owning three types of electrical appliances and weekly

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spent on housework in a particular country between 1920 and 2019.

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, it is evident that the portions of homes equipped with gadgets increased in every category over the period. Meanwhile, the time spent on chores decreased across the same period. In 1920, the share of households possessing a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner were 40% and 30%, respectively. The two represented a similar growing pattern, reaching 70% in 1960.

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, the most drastic change was observed in the group with a refrigerator; the figure rose from near zero to 90% during the first forty years and

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increased to 100% in 1980. From 1980 onwards, it remained at 100% by 2019.

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, the vacuum cleaner category continued its upward trend, marking 100% in 2000 and 2019,

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the washing machine category slightly climbed from 65% in 1980 to only 75% in 2019. Shifting our focus to the second chart, the number of

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each household spent on housework dramatically declined from 50

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in 1920 to 20

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in 1960. Since

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, the steep decline of the trajectory has accentuated, and the figure has slightly dropped to ten

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in 2019.