The charts highlight the main changes in the ownership of three types of electrical appliances, and also the amount of time which is allocated to household chores in a particular country over a decade.
Overall, the ownership of electrical appliances witnessed a considerable upward trend, whereas the number of hours which spent on doing household plunged per capita on a weekly basis.
As for the ownership of refrigerator, having increased substantially from zero percent to 90 percent in the first 40 years of the period, it then saw a negligible rise, reaching 100 percent ownership, after which it remained steady for the rest of the period. In 1920, 30 percent of people owned vacuum cleaner. Despite an abrupt grow in the ownership of vacuum cleaner from 30% to 100%, it then remained constant at this percentage, which meant that all people used this appliance from 2000 until the end of the period. Finally, washing machine’s ownership saw a significant rise from 40 percent to 70 percent before falling slightly to approximately 60 percent. At this point, it rise gradually, reaching to around 70 percent, which considered as less popular electrical appliance.
Turning to the amount of time that was spent on doing chores, it started at the highest point in 1920, at 50 hours per week. Then it experienced a significant decline, reaching to 20 hours per week during a 40-year-period. At this point, the hours of doing housework remained relatively unchanged, at around 10 hours per week until the end of the mentioned period.