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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The first line graph compares the proportions of three electrical

appliances

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(washing machine, refrigerator, and vacuum cleaner), and the other graph shows the number of

hours

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spent doing household chores per week in relation to owning these

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. Both charts present the data from 1920 to 2019.

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it is clear that

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the ownership of all three

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has increased over the given period,

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the number of

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dedicated to household work has

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significantly minimized. Looking at the first chart, in 1920, nearly one-fourth of homes owned washing machines to wash clothes, about one-third of them owned refrigerators too, and a small minority (just about 1%) of them had vacuum cleaners.

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, 40

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later, the ownership of cleaners rose exponentially, and nearly nine out of 10 families had vacuum cleaners,

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one-sixth owned refrigerators. In the following

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, the ownership of all of them continued to increase.

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, it is evident that when people started purchasing

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, the average household effort started to decline. So in 1920, the average family spent 50

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of their week doing routine chores,

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figure has considerably decreased over the

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. In 1960, the

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were reduced to nearly 15.

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, as the

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passed, the figure continued to fall, and to its lowest in 2019 at a mere 10.