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 chart illustrates the types of electrical devices which were owned by households,

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the second figure shows the duration allocated for doing chores in one particular nation between 1920 and 2019. In general, households observed a changing trend in electrical goods ownership. It shifted from washing machines, as the most common devices owned in 1920, to refrigerators and vacuum cleaners in 2019.

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duration spent doing household work

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substantially declined over the same period of time. In 1920, 40% of the population possessed a washing machine, which was the most common electric-driven good during that period,

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the ownership of vacuum cleaners made up for 30%.

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, no possession of refrigerators was recorded. 1960 was the period when more people started to buy the latter two goods, to the extent that they surpassed washing machines. By 2019, the share of households

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that had a refrigerator and vacuum cleaner

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dramatically rose to 100%.

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, the ownership of laundry devices only made up for around 70%.

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, the amount of time people spent doing chores in one week was significantly reduced by five times, which

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stood at 50 hours in 1920 to roughly 10 hours by 2019.