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Employment July- September 2024

Employments continues to decrease in July, August and September 2024

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2024-11-29 8.00

The number of ongoing employments has continued to decrease. In september, the decrease was 0.7 percent compared to the same month the previous year. Distributed by gender, the number of women decreased by 0.3, while the number of men decreased by 1.0 percent. During the same period, worked time decreased by 1.1 percent, amounting to 646 million hours.

Ongoing employments continues to decrease

The number of ongoing employments decreased in September by 39 000 compared to the same period the previous year, amounting to 5 581 000. A similar decrease can be seen for July and August.

Distributed by gender, 2 741 000 of the employments were held by women and 2 840 000 by men in September.

After more then three years of positive development for employments lasting more than six months the annual change in August and September was unchanged. However, employments lasting six months or less continues to contributes the most to the decrease in ongoing employments.

Percentage change compared to the same month in the previous year
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Worked time

The total number of hours worked in September amounted to 646 million, which is a decrease of 1.1 percent compared to the same period the previous year. A similar trend is shown for July with a decrease of 2.9 percent. In contrast, August shown an increase of 0.7 percent.

Sickness absence

In September 2024, sick pay from employers was paid for a total of 2 528 000 compensation days and the ongoing sick periods amounted to 859 000. In July and August there were a total of 1 548 000 and 2 106 000 compensation days, respectively, while the ongoing sick periods amounted to 507 000 and 697 000, respectively.

Ongoing employments and lenght of employment
  Number, 2024 Annual change compared to the same period the previous year (%)
  July August September July August September
Ongoing employments 5 655 000 5 527 000 5 581 000 ‑0.6 ‑0.8 ‑0.7
Women 2 777 000 2 703 000 2 741 000 ‑0.1 ‑0.4 ‑0.3
Men 2 878 000 2 823 000 2 840 000 ‑1.1 ‑1.2 ‑1.0
Length of employments >6 months 4 257 000 4 229 000 4 231 000 0.1 0.0 0.0
Women 2 069 000 2 051 000 2 050 000 0.8 0.8 0.8
Men 2 188 000 2 178 000 2 181 000 ‑0.5 ‑0.7 ‑0.7
Length of employments <=6 months 1 398 000 1 298 000 1 350 000 ‑2.7 ‑3.4 ‑2.9
Women 708 000 652 000 691 000 ‑2.6 ‑4.0 ‑3.6
Men 690 000 646 000 658 000 ‑2.7 ‑2.8 ‑2.2

Flow in employments (1) and worked time (2)
  Number, 2024 Annual change compared to the same period the previous year (%)
  July Augusti September July Augusti September
Started employments 358 000 235 000 201 000 0.0 ‑4.5 ‑5.2
Women 177 000 116 000 99 000 2.0 ‑5.5 ‑6.2
Men 180 000 118 000 101 000 ‑1.9 ‑3.4 ‑4.2
Terminated employments 361 000 399 000 314 000 4.4 1.5 ‑5.2
Women 183 000 209 000 157 000 4.7 2.4 ‑4.9
Men 178 000 190 000 157 000 4.1 0.5 ‑5.4
Worked time 544 000 541 000 646 000 ‑2.9 0.7 ‑1.1
Business sector 416 000 351 000 425 000 ‑4.5 ‑0.3 ‑2.0
General government sector 114 000 178 000 206 000 3.7 2.9 0.9

1) Flow in employments are reported according to the flows of new employments, resumed employments, interrupted employments and re-interrupted employment. 2) Worked time is reported as the number of hours in thousands.

Sickness absence
  Number of compensations days per employment Number of ongoing sickperiods per employment
  July 2024 August 2024 September 2024 July 2024 August 2024 September 2024
Total 0.27 0.38 0.45 0.09 0.13 0.15
Women 0.31 0.44 0.53 0.10 0.15 0.18
Men 0.23 0.31 0.37 0.07 0.10 0.13
Buisness sector 0.25 0.34 0.40 0.08 0.11 0.13
Central government 0.20 0.30 0.35 0.06 0.09 0.11
Regions 0.35 0.47 0.57 0.12 0.16 0.20
Municipalities 0.34 0.52 0.66 0.11 0.17 0.23
Non-profit institutions serving households 0.17 0.24 0.31 0.05 0.07 0.10

Definitions and explanations

Employments (ANST) consists of two parts. One part is register-based and is based on employer declarations at the individual level (PAYE) collected by the Swedish Tax Agency. The second part consists of the Sickness Absence during the Sick Pay Period (SuS), a sample survey where Statistics Sweden collects the data from employers.

The purpose of the register-based part is to depict the state of the labour market and its development over time. The statistics are used, among other things, for economic forecasts and are part of the European Union's labour market statistics.

The variable worked time is not entirely register-based; instead, it is derived from a model.

The purpose of SuS is to highlight sickness absence during the sick pay period, which is the first 14 days of sickness absence funded by the employer. The statistics are used for forecasts, analyses, and decision-making.

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