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 graphs illustrate changes in the percentage of households owning three electrical appliances and the average number of hours spent on housework per week in one country from 1920 to 2019.

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of all three appliances increased over the period,

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the time spent doing housework declined considerably. Refrigerators and vacuum cleaners eventually reached full household

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washing machines remained less common. Regarding appliance

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, washing machines were the most common appliance in 1920, at 40%, followed by vacuum cleaners at 30%. Refrigerator

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was much lower, at only around 5%. By 1960, the figures for refrigerators and washing machines had risen sharply to 90% and 70%, respectively. Refrigerator

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reached 100% in 1980,

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vacuum cleaner

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continued to rise and reached the same level by 2000. In comparison, washing machine

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fluctuated slightly before increasing to 75% in 2019.