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 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 given line charts illustrate how the proportion of electrical
appliances
owning
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families changed and the number of
time
a family spent doing
housework
every
week
in a single country between 1920 and 2019.
Overall
, the proportion of all three electrical
appliances
experienced
increase
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.
However
, the hours of
time
that
housework
took from a family every
week
kept dropping. In 1920, the proportion of refrigerators was at the lowest position with almost 0%. Before 1960, all
appliances
were increasing until a decrease occurred
to
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washing machines. During these four decades, the ownership of refrigerators significantly grew and surpassed the other two
appliances
and
continue
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to
grew
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till it reached 100% in 1980. In 2000, the ownership of vacuum cleaners
also
reached 100%. In the case of washing machines, after the drop in 1960, it went back to increased in 1980 and kept rising.
On the contrary
, the number of
time
that a family spent doing
housework
every
week
went down during the
time
of these years. In 1920, a family spent 50 hours
to do
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housework
every
week
, the number of hours dropped rapidly to 15 in 1980, and remained the same in 2000
then
declined again in 2019.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words appliances, time, housework, week with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "reached" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • household appliances
  • time-efficient
  • labour-saving devices
  • technological innovations
  • ownership rate
  • housework chores
  • domestic workload
  • automation
  • advancements
  • trend analysis
  • societal shifts
  • economic impact
  • durability
  • lifespan of appliances
  • maintenance
  • historical comparison
  • time allocation
  • drudgery reduction
  • energy consumption
  • disruption in trends
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