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 maire comparisons where refevant.

The line graphs indicate the fractions of houses with electrical home devices in a certain country and the time a household takes to do housework between 1920 and 2019.

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, not only did residential units with refrigerators and vacuum cleaners increase dramatically, but they

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overtook those that had washing machines by the end of the period.

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the number of

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of homework per week by a single family has declined over the years. In 1920, less than 10% of accommodations had a refrigerator, and 30% had vacuum cleaners.

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, these figures kept rising until 1980, as all households owned the first appliance, and

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, after two decades, 100% of homes had vacuum cleaners, and both rates held

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percentage until the end of the era. Meanwhile, the ratio of houses with washing machines fluctuated throughout the period, but it ended at a level considerably higher than its starting point, 40% and under 80%, respectively.

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, 50

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weekly a household spent doing work around the house in 1920, and

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number decreased steadily in the following years , reaching 20

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in 1960,

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it subsided to approximately 17

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in 1980, and it stayed at

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level from 1980 to 2000 before falling to only 10

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in 2019.