The line graphs compare the differences in home ownership of electrical gadgets and the number of hours spent by each family performing house chores like washing clothes, preparing meals and cleaning in a single nation over a ninety-nine-year period.
Overall, although no household owned a refrigerator at the beginning of the period, its ownership drastically increased to become the most common household item after 20 years, while the number of homes that have washing machine despite initial slight gains, became the least popular appliance.
At the beginning of the period, 40% and 30% of homes had washing machine and vacuum cleaner respectively, while none can boast of a refrigerator. This number however changed dramatically about 20 years later, when the percentage of families with fridges overtook the others to become the most popular household electric-powered appliance till the year 2000.
In the meantime, the proportion of families that owned vacuum cleaner maintained a steady increment to topple the amount of those that had washing machine by 1960. This trajectory continued and peaked at the turn of the century to equal those that had deep freezers at 100% and the values remained same till 2019. Meanwhile, the ownership of washing machine showed an initial slow rise to 70%, but depreciated to a nadir of about two-thirds in 1980, before witnessing another gradual increase to a little above the earlier peak at the end of the period.
The line graphs compare the differences in home ownership of electrical gadgets and the number of hours spent by each family performing
house
chores like washing clothes, preparing meals and cleaning in a single nation over a ninety-nine-year period.
Overall
, although no household
owned
a refrigerator at the beginning of the period, its ownership
drastically
increased to become the most common household item after 20 years, while the number of homes that have washing
machine
despite initial slight gains, became the least popular appliance.
At the beginning of the period, 40% and 30% of homes had washing
machine
and vacuum cleaner
respectively
, while none can boast of a refrigerator. This number
however
changed
dramatically
about 20 years later, when the percentage of families with fridges overtook the others to become the most popular household electric-powered appliance till the year 2000.
In the meantime, the proportion of families that
owned
vacuum cleaner maintained a steady increment to topple the amount of those that had washing
machine
by 1960. This trajectory continued and peaked at the turn of the century to equal those that had deep freezers at 100% and the values remained same till 2019. Meanwhile, the ownership of washing
machine
showed
an initial slow rise to 70%,
but
depreciated to a nadir of about two-thirds in 1980,
before
witnessing another gradual increase to a
little
above the earlier peak at the
end
of the period.