The charts illustrate the amount of time spent on housework per household and the changes in ownership of electrical appliances in one country between 1920 and 2019.
The first chart depicts the percentage of households with electrical appliances from 1920 to 2019. At the beginning of 1920, the percentage of households with refrigerators was 0%. This figure increased to around 50% by 1940. During the same period, the ownership of vacuum cleaners rose from 30% to 50%. The washing machine started at 40% in 1920 and gradually increased to 60% by 1940.
There was a dramatic rise in refrigerator ownership from around 50% to 90% in 1960, followed by a continued increase to 100% by 1980, where it remained from 1980 to 2019. Washing machine ownership saw a modest rise from 60% to 70% in 1940 and 1960, but then decreased from 70% to around 60% in 1980. After this decline, the percentage increased again to 70% in 2000 and remained constant until 2019. The vacuum cleaner started at 50% in 1940, rose to 90% by 1960, and reached 100% in 1980, maintaining this level through 2019.
The second graph shows the number of hours spent on housework per week per household from 1920 to 2019. In 1920, households spent an average of 50 hours on housework per week. This number decreased significantly from 50 hours in 1920 to around 30 hours per week by 1940. By 1960, the average dropped to 20 hours, and it continued to decline to around 10 hours per week from 1980 to 2000. In 2019, the average weekly housework hours remained at 10 per household.