Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (SILC)

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The statistics describe living conditions for the Swedish population aged 16 or older in the following areas: health, economy, housing, employment, quality of life and trust in others, leisure, social relations, civic activities, security and work environment. The statistics are used, among other things, for comparisons between groups, comparisons over time and for international comparisons.

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Book reading at its lowest in 40 years – Listening to audio books has increased

2025-06-25

Since the early 1980s, book reading has decreased in the population from 40 percent who read a book every week in their free time, to 31 percent in 2021. Instead, listening to audiobooks has increased.

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Title Language Type Date
Book reading i Sweden 1982-2024 Swedish Report 2025-06-25
Threats, violence and worry 1980-2024 Swedish Report 2025-06-05
Cultural activities 2022 Swedish Report 2025-02-14
Social relations 2022 Swedish Report 2024-10-09
Wellbeing 2022 Swedish Report 2023-12-14
Health 2022 Swedish Report 2023-11-22
Work Environment 1980–2022 Swedish Report 2023-09-18
Definition of disability in the Statistics on Income and Living conditions. Partial reporting of government assignment. Swedish Report 2022-06-13
Revision of the cross-sectional and longitudinal auxiliary vectors in the Swedish SILC English Report 2021-12-13
Work environment 1980–2020 Swedish Report 2021-09-13
Insecurity 1980-2020 Swedish Report 2021-05-19
Visits to the forests and fields 2018–2019. In urban and rural areas and from an economic perspective Swedish Report 2021-03-23
Measuring disability: a comparison of different statistical sources Swedish Report 2020-11-25
Work environment 1980-2017 Swedish Report 2018-12-17
Threats, violence and worry 1980–2017 Swedish Report 2018-05-31
Living Conditions 1980–2016 – selected indicators Swedish Report 2018-03-02
Leisure 2014–2015 Swedish Report 2017-01-25
Health 2012–2013 Swedish Rapport 2015-05-22
Changes in the Life Conditions Survey 2006–2008 – A Study in the Comparability of Welfare Indicators over time Swedish with elements of English Rapport 2010-10-01
Alternative modes of data collection in ULF, phase 2 – A comparison between two different modes of data collection Swedish Rapport 2010-01-18
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