Band 6+: The charts below show the changes in ownership of electrical appliances and amount of time doing housework and households in one country between 1920 and 2019. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

There are two graphs, one illustrates the percentage of families owning electrical appliances while the other shows the accumulated time spent on housework in most homes in a specific country from 1920 to 2019. Overall in the first chart, there are three main appliances that are highlighted. In the second, the number of hours spent on housework subsequently declined before stagnating near the end.

The first graph shows refrigerators soaring in usage throughout the 1920s-1960s, from little to less than 5%, it peaked at 100 during the 1980s. Similarly, vacuum cleaners saw an increase as well, though not as dramatic. Slowly rising from 30% in the 1920s to 100% in the 2000s. Although washing machines were at the top at the start, it fluctuated and only increased around 30% since 1920, the two others overtaking it between 1940 and 1960.

From graph two, we can see that the total hours spent on chores decreased in line with the rising popularity of vacuum cleaners. Decreasing an approximate of 30% from 1920 to 1960 and plateauing from then on till 2019.