Band 5+: The 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. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts illustrate the percentage of families who owned electrical devices, and the number of hours spent on domestic chores per week in a particular country over a century from 1920 to 2019.

Overall, more people used to have domestic appliances with the passage of time, and number of physical working hours decreased in an inverse proportionate to domestic devices.

Regarding ownership, 40 %of houses had facility of washing machines which gradually increased to 70% until 1960. Then, it slightly fluctuated in 1980 but reached to the same level of 1960 until 2000, and finally reached its peak at more than 70% in 2019, which means that every two out of three houses had washing machines at the end of the period. Notably, no household owned a vacuum cleaner in 1920, which had substantial growth and peaked at 100% in 1980 and remained stable at this level until 2019. Refrigerators started at 30% in 1920, and gradually reached at 100% until 2000.

Number of working hours in a week reduced from 50 to 10 with introduction of appliances in the given time period.