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.

The line graphs above display how the ownership of electrical appliances changed and how much time people spent in housework along the years.

Overall, the charts highlight that the percentage of households with electrical appliances grew over the years. By contrast, the number of hours of housework per week per household decreased.

The first chart shows the evolution of three different tools during the years: washing machine, refrigerator and vacuum cleaner. Particularly, the refrigerator is the appliance which had the most significant growth; in 1920 the percentage of people with such tool in their household were slightly higher than 0%. Whereas twenty years later, it was present in the majority of houses. Today, everyone has had a refrigerator since 1980.

The second chart evidences that in 1920 people spent about 50 hours in houseworks with such tools, but the number of hours constantly decreased until 1960. The line graph kept decreasing, but from 1960 to 2019 the dip was less significant; indeed, it went from 20 hours to slightly more than 10.