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.

The line chart shows the percentage of households with three kinds of electrical appliances and how many

hours

people

spend

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doing household chores in a particular nation

during

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1920 to 2019.

It is clear that

the lowest percentage of all categories of electrical appliances was in 1920. By 2019,

people

tended to use more electrical appliances,

such

as washing machines, refrigerators, and vacuum cleaners,

while

at the same time spending less time on doing housework. Looking at the information in more detail, in 1920, the proportion of households with refrigerators was 0%, which

then

saw a significant increase to 100% by 1980, remaining at

this

level until 2019. As for washing machines, ownership started at 30% and peaked at 100% from 2000 to 2019.

Additionally

, the proportion of households with vacuum cleaners witnessed a slump

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1960 to 1980, after which it slightly grew to approximately 75% in 2019." In terms of how much time

people

spend on household chores, in 1920,

people

spent 50

hours

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doing household chores each week, which

then

dramatically declined to 20

hours

in 1960.

Moreover

, the figure gradually decreased to roughly 12

hours

in 2019.