For the voter participation survey, the population consists of persons entitled to vote in the 2022 elections for parliament, county council and municipal council. The persons entitled to vote can be divided into three mutually exclusive categories:

1. Swedish citizens who turn 18 years old by Election Day and are registered as living in Sweden.
2. Swedish citizens living abroad who are included in the electoral roll. Swedish citizens living abroad who turn 18 years old by Election Day and who have been at some point registered as living in Sweden are entitled to be included in the electoral roll. Persons who have been registered as living in Sweden at some time in the last ten years are automatically included in the electoral roll. Swedish citizens living abroad who are not included in the electoral roll must apply to be included in the electoral roll. A vote submitted from abroad is also regarded as an application to be included in the electoral roll. An application to be included in the electoral roll by a Swedish citizens living abroad is automatically valid for ten years.
3. Citizens in any EU Member State, Icelandic citizens, and Norwegian citizens who turned 18 years old by Election Day and who have been registered as living in Sweden for 30 days ahead of Election Day. Citizens of other countries who turned 18 years old by Election Day, and who have been registered as living in Sweden for three consecutive years ahead of Election Day.

In parliamentary elections, parts 1 and 2 are entitled to vote. In county council elections and municipal council elections, parts 1 and 3 are entitled to vote. However, Gotland is a municipality without a county council, which means that person who are registered as living in Gotland are not included in the population of persons entitled to vote in county council elections.

The 2022 voter participation survey was carried out as a total population survey for the second time since the 1940s, which means that statistics can now also be reported by county and by municipality. Statistics Sweden’s Statistical Database includes statistics on voter turnout in parliamentary elections, county council elections and municipal county elections presented by sex, age, country of birth, education and income for the whole country, by county and by municipality.