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2012-05-15 - Short-term employment
During the first quarter of 2012 the number of employed persons amounted to 4 140 800, an increase of 2.3 percent. The number of employed persons in the private sector increased by 3.1 percent and by 0.6 percent in the public sector.
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2012-05-14 - Industrial capacity utilisation
Capacity utilisation in industry increased by 0.7 percentage points to 88.4 percent in seasonally adjusted figures during the first quarter 2012 compared to the fourth quarter 2011.
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2012-05-14 - Industrial inventories
Industrial stocks increased by SEK 2.7 billion during the first quarter compared to fourth quarter 2011, representing an increase of 1.5 percent in volume. When compared to the first quarter of 2011 the level of stocks increased by 1.9 percent.
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2012-05-11 - Service Producer Price Index (SPPI)
The Service Producer Price Index increased 1.2 percent from the fourth quarter 2011 to the first quarter 2012. The corresponding change during the previous quarter was an increase of 0.5 percent. Since the first quarter of 2011 the Service Producer Price Index has increased 2.2 percent.
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2012-05-11 - Social protection expenditure and receipts in Sweden and Europe (ESSPROS)
Social protection expenditures continued to increase during 2010 in current prices but decreased in relation to GDP. In 2010 social protection was 30.5 percent of GDP. The corresponding figure for 2009 was 32.0 percent.
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2012-05-10 - Industrial production index (IPI)
Industrial production increased by 0.4 percent in seasonally adjusted figures in March compared to February. Comparing March with the same month in 2011, industrial production decreased by 6.5 percent in working day adjusted figures.
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2012-05-10 - Consumer Price Index (CPI)
The inflation rate was 1.3 percent in April 2012, down from 1.5 percent in March. The Swedish Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.2 percent from March to April 2012 (0.4 percent from March to April 2011).
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2012-05-10 - New orders and deliveries in industry
New orders for Swedish industry increased by 2.0 percent in seasonally adjusted figures in March compared to February. When comparing March of this year and the same month of the previous year, new orders decreased by 6.4 percent in working day adjusted figures.
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2012-05-09 - New construction of residential buildings
Last year a total of 20 064 newly built dwellings were completed. This is an increase of three percent compared to 2010.
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2012-05-09 - Real estate prices and registrations of title
Real estate prices for one- or two-dwelling buildings decreased by 1 percent during the last three months (February – April 2012) compared to the previous three months (November 2011 – January 2012). Prices decreased by 4 percent on an annual basis during the last three months (February – April 2012) compared with the same period one year earlier (February – April 2011).
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