Labour Force Surveys (LFS)
Upcoming publishing: 2021-04-21
The statistics describe labour market developments for the Swedish population aged 15–74. The LFS shows the number and percentage of employed and unemployed persons respectively, per month, quarter and year. It is the only source of continuous data on total unemployment and represents the official unemployment rate.
As from the LFS publication for February, in monthly Basic tables and corresponding tables in the Statistical Database, data will not be shown where estimations, due to a low number of observations, are not considered to be of sufficient quality with regard to uncertainty. Remaining LFS tables will be updated throughout the year according to this principle. For further information on “data not shown”, see the Basic tables cover page.
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Key figures for Sweden
Labour force rate
72.9 %
Reference period: February 2021
Unemployment rate
9.7 %
Reference period: February 2021
Employment rate
65.9 %
Reference period: February 2021
Labour force rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
72.9 %
Reference period: February 2021
Unemployment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
8.8 %
Reference period: February 2021
Employment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
66.5 %
Reference period: February 2021
Statistical news
2021-03-18
As from 1 January 2021, the Swedish LFS has been amended to comply with the new EU framework regulation on social statistics, which has resulted in some changes in the survey. These changes currently lead to increased uncertainty, in particular for comparisons over time. In February 2021, 4 949 000 people were employed. There were 531 000 unemployed persons, which corresponds to an unemployment rate of 9.7 percent. The total average number of hours worked was 163.9 million hours per week. Seasonally adjusted and smoothed data showed that there were 4 992 000 employed persons in February. The unemployment rate was 8.8 percent.
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