The given line charts delineate the information on the percentage of households with electric appliances and total hours spent on household chores like washing clothes, preparing food, cleaning in one country over a period of 100 years from 1920 to 2019.
A glance at the both the charts reveal that there is a substantial increase in possession of machines which aid day to day activities and there is a decrease in total hours allocated for those activities.
In 1920, 40% of households possessed washing machine and 30% owned a refrigerator but there was no sign of usage of vacuum cleaners. The usage of the vacuum cleaners skyrocketed till 1960 with nearly 90% of people had one and by 1980 everyone had this appliance. There has been a steady increase in utilization of refrigerator, half of the citizens had a refrigerator by 1950. By 2000 refrigerator was available in every house.
Nearly 50 hours were spent for household activities in 1920 this fell sharply to 20 hours by 1960 and this notion plateaued to 10 hours of weekly work by 2019.
The
given
line charts delineate the information on the percentage of
households
with electric appliances and total
hours
spent on
household
chores like washing clothes, preparing food, cleaning in one country over a period of 100 years from 1920 to 2019.
A glance at the both the charts reveal that there is a substantial increase in possession of machines which aid day to day activities and there is a decrease in total
hours
allocated for those activities.
In 1920, 40% of
households
possessed washing machine and 30%
owned
a
refrigerator
but
there was no
sign
of usage of vacuum cleaners. The usage of the vacuum cleaners skyrocketed till 1960 with
nearly
90% of
people
had one and by 1980 everyone had this appliance. There has been a steady increase in utilization of
refrigerator
, half of the citizens had a
refrigerator
by 1950. By 2000
refrigerator
was available in every
house
.
Nearly
50
hours
were spent
for
household
activities in 1920 this fell
sharply
to 20
hours
by 1960 and this notion plateaued to 10
hours
of weekly work by 2019.