The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time spent doing housework in household in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting the relevant and main features and make comparisons where relevant.

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The line chart illustrates the percentage of households that had
an electrical appliances
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an electrical appliance
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, and
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depicts the average time spent
in
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doing housework in a week, in a particular country between 1920 and 2019.
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, we observe that, since 1920, the number of houses with electrical equipment has been increasing.
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, the amount of hours utilized for washing clothes, preparing meals, and cleaning has been dropping significantly.
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to
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, the sales of Refrigerators have increased drastically. On closer examination, we find that in 1920 almost none of the houses owned a fridge.
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, later the demand was so high that by the start of 1980, every house owned
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appliance. In the beginning, the families that had a vacuum cleaner or a washing machine
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40% and 30% respectively.
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, in 1960,
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was close to 60%, for both products. In 2000, Vacuum cleaners were nearly seen to be present in every home. In 1920, out of 168 hours in a week 50 hours
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used to do housework.
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interestingly, there has been a drop in
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figure.
As a result
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, in 1960 it was 1200 minutes, and in 2019 it was exactly half of it.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • ownership
  • electrical appliances
  • household
  • percentage
  • refrigerator
  • vacuum cleaner
  • washing machine
  • steady increase
  • significant decrease
  • correlation
  • housework
  • number of hours
  • per week
  • period
  • rise
  • reach
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