The Swedish Occupational Register with statistics 2013:
One in five hairdressers is foreign born
One in five hairdressers is foreign born, a fact that makes the occupation the most common among foreign born self-employed persons. Among employees, cleaners in hotels and offices comprise a common occupational group among foreign born persons. In this occupational group, roughly one in three women and more than every other man were foreign born in 2013.
Of the 3 993 300 employees aged 16–64 with occupational data on the Swedish labour market, 14 percent were foreign born in 2013.
The most common occupations among foreign born persons were Home-based personal care and related workers followed by Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments. These occupations were clearly dominated by women among foreign born persons with 74 and 69 percent women. Medical doctors and Helpers in restaurants were the occupations that had the most even distribution of the sexes among the 15 most common occupations among foreign born persons, with 50 percent women and 50 percent men.
Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments are an example of an occupation that had another distribution of the sexes among foreign born persons than among Swedish born persons. The percentage of women was 69 percent among foreign born persons in this occupation. The share for Swedish born women in this occupation was 84 percent.
The most common occupation among foreign born men was Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments where 65 percent of the 16 500 men in this occupation were foreign born. Of men in this occupation, 56 percent were born outside of the EU27 and the Nordic countries, which was the same percentage as the year before.
Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments came in third place among the most common occupations for foreign born women. Of the 54 600 women in the occupation, 44 percent were foreign born, and about one in three or 32 percent were born outside of the EU27 and the Nordic countries. This can be compared to the total share of employees who were born outside the EU27 and the Nordic countries which was 9 percent for both women and men.
| Occupation[1] | Employed | Born in Sweden, number | Foreign born, number | Foreign born women, number | Foreign born men, number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Home-based personal care and related workers
|
154 700 | 118 100 | 36 600 | 27 300 | 9 400 |
|
Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments
|
71 100 | 36 500 | 34 700 | 23 900 | 10 800 |
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Assistant nurses and hospital ward assistants
|
176 000 | 142 300 | 33 700 | 30 000 | 3 600 |
|
Helpers in restaurants
|
67 700 | 47 100 | 20 600 | 10 100 | 10 500 |
|
Child-care workers
|
97 300 | 81 300 | 16 000 | 13 700 | 2 300 |
|
Medical doctors
|
36 800 | 24 800 | 12 000 | 6 000 | 6 000 |
|
Cooks
|
37 200 | 26 400 | 10 800 | 3 900 | 6 900 |
|
College, university and higher education teaching professionals
|
35 600 | 25 100 | 10 500 | 4 400 | 6 200 |
|
Primary education teaching professionals
|
79 800 | 69 900 | 9 900 | 7 100 | 2 700 |
|
Stock clerks and storekeepers
|
55 400 | 45 700 | 9 700 | 1 600 | 8 100 |
|
Shop salespersons, non-food stores
|
104 700 | 95 100 | 9 600 | 5 900 | 3 700 |
|
Computer systems designers, analysts and programmers
|
80 300 | 70 900 | 9 400 | 2 300 | 7 200 |
|
Bus and tram drivers
|
24 000 | 14 900 | 9 100 | 600 | 8 500 |
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Attendants, psychiatric care
|
67 100 | 58 400 | 8 700 | 5 500 | 3 200 |
|
Other sales and services elementary occupations
|
30 300 | 21 800 | 8 500 | 3 500 | 5 000 |
|
Total[2]
|
3 981 200 | 3 425 200 | 556 000 | 277 200 | 278 700 |
1) SSYK4 according to the Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations 1996 (SSYK96) 2) Excluding those who do not have any occupational data. The figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
Helpers and cleaners in hotels, offices etc. common among self-employed foreign born persons
Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers were the most common occupation for self-employed foreign born persons as well as self-employed Swedish born persons. Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments and Car, taxi and van drivers followed for foreign born persons. The distribution for these occupational categories among self-employed persons was even among Swedish born and foreign born persons with 55 percent foreign born and 45 percent Swedish born self-employed persons, and respectively 56 percent foreign born and 44 percent Swedish born self-employed persons.
The occupations that followed for Swedish born persons were in agriculture and forestry, where 1-3 percent of self-employed persons were foreign born. Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers was the only category of the 10 most common occupations for foreign born self-employed persons that had a dominating share of foreign born persons at 77 percent. This category includes occupations such as pizza makers and chocolatier.
| Occupation[1] | Number | Percent | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born in Sweden | Foreign born | Born in Sweden | Foreign born | ||
|
Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers
|
15 200 | 4 100 | 79 | 21 | |
|
Crop and animal producers
|
14 300 | 400 | 97 | 3 | |
|
Dairy and livestock producers
|
12 800 | 200 | 98 | 2 | |
|
Forestry and related workers
|
11 400 | 300 | 98 | 2 | |
|
Field crop and vegetable growers
|
9 800 | 100 | 99 | 1 | |
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Carpenters and joiners
|
9 700 | 1 600 | 86 | 14 | |
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Shop salespersons, non-food stores
|
5 500 | 1 100 | 83 | 17 | |
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Earth-moving- and related plant operators
|
4 800 | 200 | 97 | 3 | |
|
Heavy truck and lorry drivers
|
4 600 | 400 | 92 | 8 | |
|
Authors, journalists and related professionals
|
3 600 | 300 | 93 | 7 | |
1) SSYK4 according to the Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations 1996 (SSYK96) Excluding those who do not have any occupational data. The figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
| Number | Percent | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Occupation[1] | Foreign born | Born inSweden | Foreign born | Born inSweden | |
|
Hairdressers, barbers, beauticians and related workers
|
4 100 | 15 200 | 21 | 79 | |
|
Helpers and cleaners in offices, hotels and other establishments
|
2 800 | 2 200 | 55 | 45 | |
|
Car, taxi and van drivers
|
2 600 | 2 000 | 56 | 44 | |
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Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers
|
1 700 | 500 | 77 | 23 | |
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Carpenters and joiners
|
1 600 | 9 700 | 14 | 86 | |
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Shop salespersons, food stores
|
1 300 | 1 500 | 46 | 54 | |
|
Managers of small enterprises in wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants, transports and communications
|
1 200 | 2 500 | 33 | 67 | |
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Helpers in restaurants
|
1 200 | 1 200 | 52 | 48 | |
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Shop salespersons, non-food stores
|
1 100 | 5 500 | 17 | 83 | |
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Cooks
|
1 100 | 900 | 55 | 45 | |
1) SSYK4 according to the Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations 1996 (SSYK96) The figures are rounded to the nearest 100.
Definitions and explanations
The information refers to employees aged 16–64 who are classified as gainfully employed according to the definition in the register-based labour market statistics (RAMS): all persons who are assessed to have conducted an average of one hour's work per week during the month of November 2012. Even those who were temporarily absent during the measurement period, such as due to sickness, are included in the frame.
Information concerning self-employed persons is presented for those aged 16–74 who are classified as gainfully employed according to the RAMS definition.
The occupations follow the classifications used in the Swedish Standard Classification of Occupations (SSYK 96).
Publication
A more detailed report of this survey is published in a Statistical Report.
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