You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The chart below shows 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.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

 

The chart below shows 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.
These charts illustrate the changes
of
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electrical devices' ownership and
number
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a number
the number
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of hours doing housework in one country within
period
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a period
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of
time
from 1920 to 2019.
Overall
, the amount of
time
doing domestic work, like washing clothes, preparing meals, and cleaning, declined within
period
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of
time
, but the usage of
refrigerator
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refrigerators
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and vacuum
cleaner
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is
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likely
tend
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to increase from 1920 to 2000 and
got
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steady
in
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the end of
time
in 2019.
On the other hand
, the washing machine line graph was decreased. The amount of
time
doing housework hit 50 hours per week in 1920 and plummeted significantly for the next two decades (1940-1960). After that, it went down slightly and reached 10 hours per week in 2019.
On the contrary
, in the beginning (1920), the percentage of households owning electrical appliances for washing
machine
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(40%) was higher than
refrigerator
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refrigerators
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and vacuum
cleaner
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cleaners
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. For three decades (1920-1960),
refrigerator
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has
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a
steeply
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growth than the others, but
then
both
refrigerator
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refrigerators
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and vacuum
cleaner
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cleaners
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showed a
slightly
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increase and
remain
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steady (100%)
in
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the end of
time
.
Meanwhile
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for washing
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machines
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machine
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machine,
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it went down in 1980 and
then
climbed back and hit over 70% in 2019.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words time, refrigerator with synonyms.
Vocabulary: Rephrase the word "changes" in your introduction.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "went down" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increase" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "slightly" was used 2 times.

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