Writing report

The first line graph compares the variation in the percentage of households consuming three electrical appliance and he second chart illustrates the amount of time, in hours, spent doing housework from 1920 to 2019. Looking at the first chart, it is clear that there is an increasing trend in the number of families using electrical appliances with refrigerator consumption dominating over the period shown. In constrast, the other line graph witnessed a significant decrease in a row during the same duration. In detail, in the two first years, the percentage of homes with refrigerator stood at zero and then escalated to over 55% which is slightly more than vacuum cleaner ( 50%) but less than washing machine (60%). From then on, three electrical devices used by households rose gradually over each year, but washing machine was around 30% less than the two others (100%) in the two last years. In 1920, each household handled the housechores 50 hours per week. That figure afterwards fell by 2.5 times over 41 years since then. However, there was of marginal decrease ( 20% to 10%) in the hours they did housework from 1960 onwards, especially the same amount ( 15%) in 1980 and 2000.