Ownership of electrical appliances IELTS WritingThe 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.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The first line graph displays the variations in possession of electrical appliance, while the second line graph illustrates the number of of hours undertaken per week to complete the house chores in households of one country from 1920 to 2019.
Overall, it is apparent that all the appliances witnessed an upward trend, with refrigerator showing the most prominent and significant increase. Meanwhile, the time spend on housework declined steadily and over the hundred years.
Refrigerators saw a sharp rise, beginning from 0% in 1920, and then climbing to almost 50% in 1940. After that, it inclined to 90% in 1960 and plateaued to 100% at 1980. Vacuum cleaners on the other hand, started from 30% and then rose significantly until 1980 to about 90%, and by 2019 their ownership reached to 100%. However, the possession of washing machine in 1920 was 40% which surged to 70% in 1960 but slightly plummeted in 1980 and ended nearly to 70% by 2019.
The time spent on washing clothes, preparing meals and cleaning plunged steeply from 50 hours per week to only 20 by 1960. After that, the decline was more gradual to just over 10 hours per week.
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