Labour Force Surveys (LFS)
Upcoming publishing: 2021-01-28
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
72.7 %
Reference period: November 2020
-0.6 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Unemployment rate
7.7 %
Reference period: November 2020
0.9 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Employment rate
67.1 %
Reference period: November 2020
-1.2 %-unit
compared with the same period previous year
Labour force rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
73.4 %
Reference period: November 2020
Unemployment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
8.6 %
Reference period: November 2020
Employment rate (smoothed and seasonally adjusted)
67.1 %
Reference period: November 2020
Statistical news
2020-12-17
In November 2020, there were 5 062 000 employed people, non seasonally adjusted, which is 78 000 fewer than in November 2019. The decrease occurred among young persons aged 15-24 years. The number of unemployed people was 421 000 and the unemployment rate was 7.7 percent, up by 0.9 percentage points. The average number of hours worked was 168.3 million hours per week, which corresponds to a decrease of 3.9 percent, calendar-adjusted. Seasonally adjusted and smoothed data has not shown any detrimental changes to employment or unemployment since June. The unemployment rate was 8.6 percent.
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