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  • The most common occupations among foreign born

    The most common occupational field for foreign born women was service, care and shop sales workers in 2024, whereas occupations requiring advanced level of higher education was most common among foreign born men. The occupational fields that are most common vary among foreign born in regard to different grounds for settlement.

  • New analysis of the views of foreign born and Swedish born persons on their municipality and the society

    Foreign born persons often have a more positive view of how municipal services work and agree to a larger extent that inhabitants have good opportunities to influence operations of the municipality and the content of political decisions, compared to Swedish born persons. At the same time, foreign born persons feel less safe in their municipality and have lower trust in other people.

  • Eight out of ten unaccompanied minors from 2015 are employed

    In 2015, 35 000 unaccompanied minors sought asylum in Sweden. The largest group were 16-year-old boys from Afghanistan. In 2022 around 20 000 of them were registered in Sweden. A new report from Statistics Sweden presents the situation in 2022 for the group of unaccompanied minors born in 1999.

  • Increasing share with earned income among refugees and their family

    The share of refugees and family members of refugees with earned income and work-related compensation has increased during the 2000s, but the share with this type of income is still lower in this group, compared both to other foreign-born persons and to those born in Sweden.

  • Similar incomes 10 years after graduation regardless of national background

    It is less common for foreign born pupils and pupils born in Sweden with a foreign background to complete upper secondary school with a school leaving certificate; they also have lower final school grades on average than pupils born in Sweden with a Swedish background. Among those with a school leaving certificate, 10 years after upper secondary school a lower percentage of these groups are in work. However, among those with a school leaving certificate who are in work, incomes are on average roughly the same regardless of national background, according to this year’s report on integration.