Labour Force Surveys (LFS)
Upcoming publishing: 2023-02-07
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.
Labour Force Surveys (LFS), previous definitions
Correction 2022-10-21
The length of the unemployment, corrected back to April 2021
The average agreed working hours, corrected back to January 2021
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Key figures for Sweden
Labour force rate
73.1 %
Reference period: December 2022
0.2 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Unemployment rate
6.9 %
Reference period: December 2022
-0.4 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Employment rate
68.1 %
Reference period: December 2022
0.5 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Labour force rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
74.7 %
Reference period: December 2022
Unemployment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
7.3 %
Reference period: December 2022
Employment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
69.2 %
Reference period: December 2022
Statistical news
2023-01-27
In December 2022, there were 5 146 000 employed people, not seasonally adjusted. The average number of hours worked per week amounted to 147.5 million. In calendar-adjusted figures, this corresponds to an increase of 2.5 percent. The number of unemployed people amounted to 380 000 and the unemployment rate was 6.9 percent. Seasonally adjusted and smoothed data indicates an increase in the number of employed people. The seasonally adjusted and smoothed unemployment rate amounted to 7.3 percent.
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