The first line graph compares the proportion of households with three types of electrical machines in a country between 1920 and 2019, and the second line chart illustrates the time spent on housework per household per week over the same period.
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it is clear that
the three figures for households with different kinds of electrical appliances all showed an upward trend, Linking Words
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the average hours of housework in a week declined steadily.
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According to
the first graph, the percentage of families possessing a refrigerator rose dramatically from 1920 to 1980, from about 0% to 100%, and remained at Linking Words
this
level for the rest 39 years. Followed closely behind is the figure for the vacuum cleaner, which had increased constantly by 20% per year until it reached 100%. The proportion of families with a washing machine had gone up from 40% to 60% between 1920 and 1940 but experienced a fluctuation between 60% and 75% in the remaining 69 years.
Concerning the hours of doing housework per week, it had decreased consistently between 1920 and 1980, from 50% to approximately 15%, and stayed at the point around 15% for the rest of the period.Linking Words
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