Key figures of Sweden

	Value	Change from previous period	Change from corresponding period previous year	Period
Business activities
Industrial production index	94.1 (1 (index 2005=100)	0.4% (2	-6.5% (3	March 2012
New orders in industry	93.0 (1 (Index 2005=100)	2.0% (2	-6.4% (3	March 2012
Housing, construction and building
Real Estate Price Index, quarter	524 (Index 1981=100 )	-1%	-4%	Q1 2012
Real Estate Price Index, year	542 (Index 1981=100 )		+1%	Year 2011
Started dwellings under new construction	23.46 (Thousands)		-11%	Year 2011
Labour market
Employed	4643 (Thousands)	..	1.7%	March 2012
Employment rate	65.4 (Percent)	..	0.7 %-unit	March 2012
Hourly earnings of manual workers in the private sector	147.1 (SEK)	-0.2%	2.5%	February 2012
Labour force	5032 (Thousands)	..	1.3%	March 2012
Labour force rate	70.9 (Percent)	..	0.5 %-unit	March 2012
Monthly salary of non-manual workers in the private sector	34 610 (SEK)	-0.1%	2.5%	February 2012
Unemployed	389 (Thousands)	..	-3.6%	March 2012
Unemployed (aged 15-24)	161 (Thousands)	..	-4.2%	March 2012
Unemployed for more than 6 months (relative to all unemployed)	33.7 (Percent)	..	-0.9 %-unit	March 2012
Unemployment rate	7.7 (Percent)	..	-0.4 %-unit	March 2012
Unemployment rate (aged 15-24)	25.5 (Percent)	..	-1.1 %-unit	March 2012
National Accounts
National Accounts, GDP	910 801 (SEK million current prices)			4th Quarter 2011
National Accounts, GDP	901 785 (SEK million. Constant prices, reference year 2010. Working-day adjusted.)	-1.1%	1.1%	4th Quarter 2011
National Accounts, GDP per capita	369.9 (1 000 SEK)			2011
National Accounts, GNI per capita	378.5 (1 000 SEK)		4.5%	2011
National Accounts, Gross National Income, GNI	3 576 676 (SEK million current prices)		5.3%	2011
Population
Population	9 495 113 (Number of persons)	0.04%	0.71%	31 March 2012
Prices and Consumption
Consumer Price Index	315.49 (Index 1980=100)	0.2%		April 2012
CPIF	199.63 (Index 1987=100)	0.3%	1.0%	April 2012
Export Price Index	112.8 (Index 2005=100)	-0.4%	0.8%	March 2012
Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP)	113.73 (Index 2005=100)	0.3%	1.0%	April 2012
Import Price Index	117.1 (Index 2005=100)	-0.3%	2.3%	March 2012
Inflation rate	()		1.3%	April 2012
Net Price Index	266.06 (Index 1980=100)	0.3%	1.7%	April 2012
Price Index for domestic supply	119.5 (index 2005=100)	-0.5%	0.8%	March 2012
Producer Price Index	117.3 (Index 2005=100)	-0.3%	0.2%	March 2012
Producer Price Index, home sales	122.0 (Index 2005=100)	-0.4%	-0.5%	March 2012
Service Producer Price Index	111.9 (Index 2005=100)		2.2%	1st quarter 2012
Public finances
Public sector net lending, percentage to GDP, according to EU convergence criteria	-0.9 (percent)	-3.1 %-unit		2009
Public sektor gross debt, percentage to GDP, according to EU convergence criteria	41.9 (percent)	3.7 %-unit		2009
Taxratio, percentage to GDP	46,9 (percent)	0.4 %-unit		2009
Trade in goods and services
Exports of Goods	105.1 (SEK billion)		-7.0% (10	March 2012
Imports of Goods	100.3 (SEK billion)		-4.4% (10	March 2012
Net Trade of Goods	4.8 (SEK billion)			March 2012
Retail Trade	125.8 (1 (2005=100)	0.2% (2	4.5% (3	March 2012
Service production index	117.9 (1 (Index 2005=100)	0.9% (2	2.8% (3	March 2012
Transport and communications
New registration of passenger cars	25 391 (Number of passenger cars)	-1.3% (2	-18.4%	April 2012

Footnotes:

Calendar corrected and seasonally adjusted values.
The percentage change is based on calendar corrected and seasonally adjusted values.
The percentage change is based on values that are calendar corrected but not seasonally adjusted.
April 2005 the EU-harmonised Labour Force Survey (LFS) was introduced. This caused a break in comparability over time. The changes also make it impossible to produce seasonally adjusted data which are needed to calculate the "change in % from previous period". "Change in % to corresponding period previous year" is based on data from the new LFS and on linked data for 2004.
Trend value
The percentage change is based on the trend value.
The aim is to exclude temporary effects on the CPI that normally have little or no significance on monetary policy. Household mortgage interest expenditure and the effects of changes in indirect taxes and subsidies are excluded from the CPI.
The aim is to exclude temporary effects on the CPI that normally have little or no significance for monetary policy from domestically generated inflation. Household mortgage interest expenditure, goods that are mainly imported and the effects of changes in indirect taxes and subsidies that relate to domestically produced goods and services are excluded from the CPI.
Only the percentage change is available.
The percentage change is based on values that have not been calendar corrected nor seasonally adjusted. The labour market crisis during the 1990s primarily affected young persons aged between 16-24.