The labour market situation for persons with disabilities 2021
Proportion of employed persons smaller among persons with disabilities
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2022-03-31 8.00
The proportion of employed persons is 71 percent, which is lower than for the general population where it is at 79 percent.
On behalf of the Government, Statistics Sweden has carried out a survey on the labour market situation for persons with disabilities. In the survey, 18 percent of the population aged 16–64 years stated that they had a disability. Among those, 42 percent consider that their ability to work is very reduced or partially reduced.
The proportion of employed persons is smaller among persons with disabilities than in the general population. This is also true for people who have a disability that involves a reduced ability to work, the employment rate was 58 percent.
The unemployment rate was 11 percent among persons with disabilities and 17 percent among persons with a disability that involves a reduced ability to work. The corresponding rate for the rest of the population was 8 percent.
Proportion of persons with disabilities working full-time was smaller
The proportion of persons with disabilities working full-time was smaller than in the general population, 75 percent compared to 82 percent. Among persons with disabilities that involved reduced ability to work, this figure was 59 percent.
The proportion of people working full-time is lower among women than among men. This was the case both among persons with disabilities and among the general population. Among employed women with disabilities 66 work full-time compared to 83 percent among men.
Definitions and explanations
The survey includes people aged 16–64 years who are registered in the population in Sweden. A question about disability is asked in direct connection with the Labour Force Survey (LFS). People who state that they have a disability are asked whether their disability has led to a reduced ability to work. They are also asked if they need any special workplace adaptations to perform their work, and also if they have received any such adaptation.
The 2021 survey was carried out using a similar approach as in 2020. However, the approach is different from the years prior to 2020. In 2020 the estimation procedure in the LFS was changed, and there were also adjustments the survey population, questionnaire and certain definitions in order to follow the EU Regulation on Social Statistics (Regulation 2019/1700, establishing a common framework for European statistics relating to social statistics). These changes mean that comparisons between the AMU 2021 results and earlier years should be avoided.
The information for the total population presented here differs from the official statistics on the 2021 LFS. This is in part due to a difference in the collection period, and in part because the estimates are only based on the sample for this survey and not on the whole LFS sample.
Persons with disabilities comprise those who answered “Yes” to the following question:
In this survey, disability refers to a person having impaired vision or hearing, speech or voice problems, motor disability, allergies or some form of mental disability. Disability can also refer to a person having diabetes, heart and lung problems, gastrointestinal disease, psoriasis, epilepsy, dyslexia or something similar. Based on this definition, are you classified as having a disability?
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