Population by Labour market status, 3rd quarter 2022
Employment continues to increase during the third quarter of 2022
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2022-11-30 8.00
The number of employed people aged 15 to 74 in the third quarter of 2022 amounted to 5 301 000. This is an increase of 152 000 people compared to the corresponding period in 2021. Among people aged 16 to 64, the number of unemployed was 252 000. This corresponds to a rate of 4.7 percent expressed as a share of the labour force, and a decrease of 1.3 percentage points compared to the third quarter of 2021.
Statistics Sweden launched the new statistics Population by Labour Market Status (BAS) in May 2022. The aim is to give information on the supply of labour in Sweden per month, quarter, and year. BAS reports statistics based on administrative data on the number of employed, unemployed and people outside the labour force for the population aged 15 to 74 years. Initially, BAS constitutes so-called statistics under construction, but it is planned to be reported as official statistics in the long term. This report refers to preliminary statistics, regarding month and quarter for the period July 2022 – September 2022.
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