Employment October - December 2024
The number of employments has decreased throughout 2024
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-02-28 8.00
The number of ongoing employments has continued to decrease. In December, the decrease was 0.7 percent compared to the same month the previous year. During the same period, worked time decreased by 4.0 percent, amounting to 636 million hours. The proportion of sickness was 1.8 percent.
The proportion of sickness absence is now published
The requested variable, the proportion of sickness absence, has now been published from the reference period January 2024. It will complement the previous available variables, compensation days and ongoing sickperiods, to better illustrate sickness absence during the sick-pay period. The proportion of sickness absence shows how much of the total working time was lost due to sickness and will be reported for the same study domains as the existing measures of Sickness absence during the sick-pay period.
Previously, the proportion of sickness absence was published within the Short-Term Employment survey. Note that these variables differ and are therefore not comparable. A major difference is that the proportion of sickness absence within Short-Term Employment also included sickness benefits paid by the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.
Ongoing employments continues to decrease
The number of ongoing employments decreased in December by 39 000 compared to the same period the previous year, amounting to 5 510 000. A similar decrease can be seen for October and November.
Distributed by gender, 2 693 000 of the employments were held by women and 2 817 000 by men in December.
After more then three years of positive and unchanged development for employments lasting more than six months the annual change in November and December was negative. However, employments lasting six months or less continues to contributes the most to the decrease in ongoing employments.
Worked time
The total number of hours worked in December amounted to 636 million, which is a decrease of 4.0 percent compared to the same period the previous year. A similar trend is shown for November with a decrease of 1.0percent. In contrast, October shown an increase of 0.2 percent.
| Number, 2024 | Annual change compared to the same period the previous year (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | November | December | October | November | December | |
| Ongoing employments | 5 440 000 | 5 436 000 | 5 510 000 | ‑1.0 | ‑0.8 | ‑0.7 |
| Women | 2 663 000 | 2 657 000 | 2 693 000 | ‑0.7 | ‑0.6 | ‑0.4 |
| Men | 2 777 000 | 2 779 000 | 2 817 000 | ‑1.2 | ‑1.0 | ‑0.9 |
| Length of employments >6 months | 4 211 000 | 4 218 000 | 4 240 000 | 0.0 | ‑0.1 | ‑0.1 |
| Women | 2 037 000 | 2 038 000 | 2 051 000 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 |
| Men | 2 175 000 | 2 180 000 | 2 189 000 | ‑0.8 | ‑0.7 | ‑0.7 |
| Length of employments <=6 months> | 1 228 000 | 1 218 000 | 1 270 000 | ‑4.1 | ‑3.2 | ‑2.7 |
| Women | 626 000 | 619 000 | 642 000 | ‑5.4 | ‑4.4 | ‑3.7 |
| Men | 602 000 | 599 000 | 628 000 | ‑2.7 | ‑2.0 | ‑1.7 |
| Number, 2024 | Annual change compared to the same period the previous year (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | November | December | October | November | December | |
| Started employments | 201 000 | 209 000 | 241 000 | ‑5.0 | ‑3.6 | ‑4.4 |
| Women | 98 000 | 100 000 | 112 000 | ‑8.0 | ‑4.0 | ‑5.3 |
| Men | 103 000 | 109 000 | 129 000 | ‑2.0 | ‑3.2 | ‑3.6 |
| Terminated employments | 406 000 | 267 000 | 253 000 | ‑0.9 | ‑4.1 | ‑3.8 |
| Women | 211 000 | 133 000 | 121 000 | ‑0.9 | ‑4.4 | ‑4.0 |
| Men | 195 000 | 134 000 | 133 000 | ‑0.9 | ‑3.8 | ‑3.5 |
| Worked time | 705 000 | 705 000 | 636 000 | 0.2 | ‑1.0 | ‑4.0 |
| Business sector | 471 000 | 483 000 | 453 000 | ‑0.7 | ‑1.5 | ‑3.7 |
| General government sector | 217 000 | 205 000 | 166 000 | 2.3 | ‑0.2 | ‑5.5 |
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.
| Proportion of sickness absence, 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October | November | December | ||
| Total | 2.3 | 2.2 | 1.8 | |
| Women | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.0 | |
| Men | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 | |
| Business sector | 2.0 | 1.9 | 1.6 | |
| Central government | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.3 | |
| Regions | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.3 | |
| Municipalities | 3.3 | 3.3 | 2.6 | |
| Non-profit institutions serving households | 1.6 | 1.4 | 0.9 | |
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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