Population 25-65 years of age by region and level of educational attainment. Year 2024

The population “refugees received for settlement in the municipality” includes persons recorded in the population register aged 20–64 at 31 December of the employment year/earnings year concerned (the year in which the proportion of gainfully employed persons is measured) and who have at some time been received for settlement by a municipality and who at that time either: • have been covered by the ordinance (2010:1122) on state support for initiatives for certain immigrants, for which a municipality is compensated by the Swedish Migration Agency • have been covered by ”The act on introductory allowance for refugees and certain other immigrants” (1992:1068). “Received for settlement in the municipality” refers to refugees and persons in need of subsidiary protection, or persons who have been granted a residence permit on particular humanitarian and compassionate grounds, and relatives of anybody in these categories. The relative must apply for a residence permit within a certain period of time from when the related person (reference person) was initially received in a municipality *) The population changes each earnings year due to the age limits. For example, a person who was 18 years old at the time of reception for settlement in the municipality (=year of reception) will not not be included in the table until two years after the year of reception when the person is 20 years old. A person who is 64 years old in the year of reception is only included in the table in rows where the year of reception is the same as the earnings year. In the following years, the person is over 64 years old and is hence outside of the population.
Gainfully employed The official delimitation of gainfully employed in the Register-Based Labour Market Statistics (RAMS) is presented as the variable Status of employment in the Employment Register. The methods applied are based on boundaries that, as far as possible, resemble the definition of the ILO (International Labour Organization). This means that everybody who has performed income-generating work for at least one hour during a measurement week shall be considered to be gainfully employed. In RAMS, which is register-based, it is not possible to ask persons if they have worked a certain time in a certain week. Reference is made to operational methods and rules to set individual limits on whether the person has been gainfully employed for least one hour per week or not. Guidelines for the operational delimitation methods: In RAMS, November is the month in which data is sought regarding how many persons, and who, have been gainfully employed for at least one hour per week. Two categories of gainfully employed persons are worked with – self-employed and employees. An additional category, “assisting family members” is included in ILO’s definition but has been excluded in RAMS because register data for this is entirely absent.
The tables have undergone disclosure control to avoid the risk of identifying individual persons. Cells that have been checked for confidentiality have been marked with two full stops (..). Cells that cannot be shown because the earnings year was before the year of reception have also been marked with two full stops (..). Note that a level of education comprises both studies concluded with a degree and studies concluded without a degree, excluding postgraduate studies that only include persons with degrees. An education must cover no less than one term of full-time studies to enable level classification.
For further information on principles for classifying the level of education, see www.scb.se/sun Some RegSO codes have been updated with new area designations. See the Excel file Historiska förändringar av RegSO. From 2023, the agegroup 25–65 is reported due to the increased retirement age. For the 2000 version, the Swedish Register of Education underwent extensive quality improvements which led to a break in the time series and this means that comparisons with previous versions of the register must be done very carefully! -1) SUN, the Swedish Educational Terminology, was adapted to the international terminology ISCED 97 (International Standard Classification of Education) with the new SUN 2000. -2) A number of new data sources were added to the register. The most important new sources were: -*Total higher education points from 1993 from the Higher Education Register* -*Total KOMVUX (adult education) points from 1988* -*Foreign educational programmes which are recognised by the National Agency for Higher Education* -*The National Board of Healths register of healthcare and medical staff*. XX Note that educational data might be incomplete for a small number of persons. It could concern people with degrees from abroad or with private degrees or with internal company-educations or people with old degrees.