The charts compare the proportion of households equipped with domestic appliances and the quantity of time spent on household chores each week and per dwelling.
Overall, it can be seen that a vacuum cleaner was the most widely used appliance throughout the period, while the washing machine had the lowest usage rate. Meanwhile, the amount of time spent on housework steadily declined year by year.
Out of the three domestic responsibilities, vacuum cleaners consistently had the highest proportion in household usage, reaching its peak between 2000 and 2019. Likewise, at the beginning of the period, refrigerators recorded a percentage nearing zero before dramatically surging to their peak by 2000. Meanwhile, washing machine recorded the lowest proportion out of all chores. At the outset, the data recorded that two-fifths of the percentage was represented by washing machines, which then experienced minor growth to seven in ten in 1960. In the following years, the figure dipped slightly, followed by a gradual increase to just under 80%.
According to the trends, the number of hours spent on housework initially remained at a high proportion, but then consistently declined each year, eventually falling to nearly one in ten by the end of the period