The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and the 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 charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and the 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 two diagrams depict how many households used different electrical appliances and how much time people cleaned their houses from 1920 to 2019. In general, the
number
of households that employed three electrical appliances has increased over the past 99 years,
whereas
humans spent less time doing housework. In 1920, many people used washing machines in 40
percent
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of households, followed by vacuum cleaners in the
number
30, and fewer families employed refrigerators.
However
, the figure for humans who applied refrigerators has dramatically increased and it culminated in 100% in 1980. After that, the figure slightly dropped. Regarding vacuum cleaners,
similarly
, it
also
crept up steadily and it reached 100% in 2000. Since
then
, the statistics have remained flat.
Finally
,
although
washing machines were the least
favorable
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among the other machines, the
number
climbed up slowly, but it has been not over 70% over the past 9 decades.
According to
the second chart, the
number
of hours of housework per week has decreased from 50 hours per week to 10 between 1920 and 2019.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • household appliances
  • time-efficient
  • labour-saving devices
  • technological innovations
  • ownership rate
  • housework chores
  • domestic workload
  • automation
  • advancements
  • trend analysis
  • societal shifts
  • economic impact
  • durability
  • lifespan of appliances
  • maintenance
  • historical comparison
  • time allocation
  • drudgery reduction
  • energy consumption
  • disruption in trends
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