Children and their Families
The statistics cover children's families, separations among parents, joint and sole custody, geographic distance between children and parents, children with Swedish/foreign background and adoption. It also contains data on children's living conditions, parents' employment and economic conditions.
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2026-06-25
In Sweden, there are approximately 1.2 million families with children under the age of 18. Seven out of ten are nuclear families, two out of ten are families with a single parent, and just under one in ten are reconstituted families. It is most common for families to have one or two children, a pattern that applies to more than eight in ten families with children.
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Publications
| Title | Language | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Living conditions for children with disabilities | Swedish | 2024-11-27 |
| Residence and support of children with parents living apart | Swedish | 2023-10-18 |
| Children with low income standard | Swedish | 2022-12-20 |
| Living conditions for children with foreign background | Swedish | 2020-05-07 |
| Measuring parental separations. Quality of register based statistics | Swedish | 2018-12-11 |
| Development of Statistics Sweden’s statistics on children and their families | Swedish | 2017-03-21 |
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