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Social services

Official statistics of Sweden

Surveys by statistics areas

  • Care of elderly persons and persons with disabilities

    Statistic on care and services for persons with impairments

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the number of persons with impairments with measures in accordance with the Social Services Act. Efforts presented here include housing assistance, home help services and housing.

    Statistics on care and services for the elderly

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the number of elderly people with measures in accordance with the Social Services Act. Efforts presented here include home help services, special housing, day activities and temporary placement.

    Statistics on Care and Services for the Elderly and Persons with Impairments Management Form

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show efforts in accordance with the Social Services Act directed to elderly people and persons aged 0-64 with impairments. The distribution between private and public efforts carried out is available in the statistics regarding 2007-2021. These statistics are no longer updated.

  • Care of individuals and families

    Social assistance, quarterly statistics

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the cost development of social assistance, with information about social assistance paid out per quarter. In 1994, the statistics was expanded with information about introduction compensation for immigrants and social assistance for refugees. The statistics has not been updated since 2011.

    Social services provided to children and young people – aggregated data

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show social services' care of children and young people and contains information about efforts directed and individual children and young people carried out with the support of the Social Services Act or the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act.

    Statistics on family law

    Statistical agency: Family Law and Parental Support Authority

    The statistics contain information about municipalities' measures in family law in accordance with regulations in the Family Code and Social Services Act. It can be a matter of establishing paternity, care investigation and adoption investigation.

    Statistics on social services for adult with drug abuse or addiction

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show efforts concerning assistance for housing, individual means-tested outpatient measures, voluntary institutional care, foster family care and compulsory institutional care for adult drug abusers.

    Statistics on social services for children and young people

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show the scope of immediate compulsory care and placement in institutional care outside the own home according to the Social Services Act and the Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act for children and young persons aged 0-20.

    Statistics on the municipalities family counselling

    Statistical agency: Family Law and Parental Support Authority

    The statistics contain aggregated data about counselling carried out or financed by all municipalities in Sweden. The aim of the statistics is to show the scope of municipal family counselling.

  • Support and services for people with disabilities

    Statistics on the functionally impaired – measures specified by LSS

    Statistical agency: National Board of Health and Welfare

    The statistics show persons with efforts in accordance with the Act concerning Support and Service to Persons with Certain Functional Impairments provided by municipalities and county councils.