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 line diagrams illustrate the trends in ownership of electrical appliances and the time devoted to household chores in a particular country from 1920 to 2019.

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, the percentage of

households

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with electrical appliances increased consistently throughout the period,

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the weekly hours spent on household tasks dropped significantly. In 1920, refrigerators were almost entirely absent from

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.

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, ownership surged over the next two decades, reaching about 53%, and continued to rise sharply, hitting nearly 90% by 1960. Over the following twenty years,

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figure peaked at 100%, where it remained steady until 2019. Washing machine ownership, which began at approximately 40%, saw some fluctuations but ultimately stabilized

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70%.

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, the percentage of

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with vacuum cleaners, which started at 30%, increased rapidly between 2000 and 2019, reaching nearly 100%. The time spent on household chores,

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close to 50 hours per week in 1920, dropped by more than half over the next

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40

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downward trend continued, and by 2019,

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were spending only around 10 hours per week on

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tasks.