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Children and their Families

Official statistics of Sweden

Upcoming publishing: 2023-06-20

The statistics cover children's families, separations among parents, joint and sole custody, geographic distance between children and parents, children with Swedish/foreign background and adoption. It also contains data on children's living conditions, parents' employment and economic conditions.

Statistical news

Lower share of children who have a low income standard in 2021

2023-03-22

In 2021 7,5 percent of children under the age of 18, living at home, had a low income standard, meaning that the family’s income is not enough to meet basic needs. That is a decrease of 3 percentage points, when compared to 2014.

All statistical news for this statistic

Tables in the Statistical Database

Publications

Title Language Type Date
Children with low income standard Swedish Report 2022-12-20
Living conditions for children with foreign background Swedish Report 2020-05-07
Measuring parental separations. Quality of register based statistics Swedish Report 2018-12-11
Development of Statistics Sweden’s statistics on children and their families Swedish Report 2017-03-21

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