The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances andamount 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 compare the proportion of three electrical appliances used in households and the time spent

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housework per week during a period from 1920 to 2019.

It is clear that

the amount of electrical appliance usage saw a rise between 1920 and 2019 especially the application of refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.

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, the number of hours spent on housework per week noticeably declined over time. In 1920, the washing machine was the main electrical appliance of households, with the percentage at 40%. Only 30% of households had vacuum cleaners and almost no one had a refrigerator. 40 years later, in 1960, the refrigerator overtook the washing machine as the primary electrical appliance with a dramatic increase from almost 0 to 90%

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and rose gradually to 100% by 1980. Vacuum cleaners saw a similar pattern, reaching around 100% by 2000.

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, the figure for washing machines climbed to 70% in 1690, fell to 60% in 1980 and modestly increased to approximately 72% in 2019. During the period between 1920 to 1960, the amount of time people spent on housework each week reduced by more than half, from 50 to 20 hours and kept declining to 10 hours by 2019.