Statistics Sweden

Unit: Wages and employment

Department of Social statistics and analysis

Department of Social statistics and analysis

Wages and employment

Statistics Sweden 

SE -706 38 Örebro

NACE Rev. 2.

The STS for industry covers Nace Rev. 2 Section B to E, in construction Nace Rev.2 Section F, in retail trade Nace Rev. 2 Section G (excluded G473) and in other services NACE Rev.2 Section H to J and L, M (excluded M701, M72 and M75) and N. In all annexes values are for enterprises with 1 or more employees. 

The definition of employment includes all persons employed by the public and private sectors. Included are persons working full time and part time, persons on leave (sickness, abroad, maternity, training, military service and so on), persons on strike and employed on short-term contracts. The number of employees and self-employed persons is approximated by the number of employees. Persons on temporary leave are counted for if they have recieved any payment from the employer. Changes in personel are calculated from the PAYE tax returns using information on wether a person has recieved payment from a unique employer or not.  

Legal unit is used as the reporting unit in both private and public sector. The observation unit used is Kind-of-activity unit (KAU).

All registered legal units with at least one employee who pay salary to their employees are included in the statistical population. Buisness units have to contribute to Swedish production. The register covers legal units. A distribution model is used to distribute number of employments to different KAU.

No regions of Sweden are excluded. Activities outside the geografical coverage are not included in the data.

Time series is available from 2000Q1. Due to a change of the data source there is a time series break 2020Q1.

Base year is 2021. Indices are reported to Eurostat. 

Number of employees.

The data are transmitted to Eurostat in indices and are published on national level in absolute values.

The register includes monthly data. However the indices reported to Eurostat refer to quarterly numbers based on an average of the three months in the reference quarter. 

Since of the 1st of January 2019 all employers are obligated to report individual PAYE tax returns to the Swedish Tax Agency. These data is later transmitted to Statistics Sweden. Statistics on employment is classified as official statistics in Sweden according to the Official Statistics Act of 2001 (SFS 2001:99) and to the EBS regulation. 

Data are not sent to other international organisations.

Policies are available to eliminate the risk of disclosure of private information. 

No single unit can be identified. 

Monthly data is released every quarter. Dates for the releses are determined one year in advance. 

A release calendar with information on release dates of statistics on national level is available on Statistics Sweden’s web site Publishing calendar (scb.se) .

The monthly data is released every quarter simultaneously on the website and in Swedish statistical database. Employment data are transmitted to Eurostat as soon as they are released in Sweden (approximately 2 months after the end of the reference period). 

The monthly statistics are published quarterly on Employments (scb.se)  and within a week the data is transmitted to Eurostat. 

The data are released approximately 2 months after the end of the reference quarter in the Statistical news. 

None.

The monthly data are released approximately 2 months after the end of the third month in the reference quarter. Data are published in the Swedish statistical database (SSD) AM0211. The data are published at 2-digit NACE level, regional data on the NUTS 3 level, according to the size classes; all on a monthly basis. 

Micro-data access is granted to researchers. The micro-data is always deidentified.

Data transmission to Eurostat every quarter.

Updates of documentation on the website once a year.

The documentation updates on the website once a year. The updated version can be found at Employments (scb.se).

Quality declarations are published annually together with data for the first month of the reference year. 

Validation of data is conducted on regulary basis. Deviation and extreme values are brought to attention when compared to previous values and data sources. 

The primary users:

Eurostat.

National Account Departement within Statistics Sweden includes the data in quartarly national account processing.

Ministry of finance, Central bank of Sweden, Swedish Public Employment Service and Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions use the data as a backdrop to decision making.

The Swedish National Institute of Economic Research uses the data for economic evaluations and forecasts.    

Other users:

Enterprises, students and researchers request data for analysis.

There is no user satisfaction report available.

The STS and SCB requirements are fulfilled.

The accuracy is good since the data cover the whole population of employers. 

Not applicable.

Nationally, the publications of monthly data are released approximately 2 months after the end of the third month. Dates for the quarterly releases of the monthly data are determined one year in advance. Data is not revised. Shortly after the data is published nationally, it is transmitted to Eurostat. 

Not applicable.

There has been changes to NACE classifications over time. These have affected the comparability to some extent, over the period. The time series are available from 2000. In addition, in 2020Q1 there is a time series break caused by change in the data source. 

Continual comparisons are made with the data from the Labour Force Surveys (scb.se) and Population by Labour market status (scb.se). 

Since the statistics is registerbased the summarized sub-aggregates are consistent with the totals. Some sub-aggregates are however market due to discosure.  

Since the data is collected by the Swedish Tax Agency the cost associated with the collection of data and burden on respondents can not be calculated by Statistics Sweden. However, since Statistics Sweden can use this source in production the cost and burden are lower in comparison to parallell collection of data by Statistics Sweden. 

Revisions are made for the STS every fifth year due to rebasing. Nonscheduled revisions may occur due to errors if changes in published data are considered large. 

Users are informed in advance of methodological and others changes which may lead to revisions. Big revisions are announced when data is released. However, big revisions are unusuall. Smaller revisions are not announced. 

Administrative data source - Employers declarations on individual level (PAYE) collected by the Swedish Tax Agency. 

Monthly. 

The monthly administrative data is transmitted to Statistics Sweden from Swedish Tax Agency. 

Comparison is done with previous years data, previous months data and, other data sources. The data is aldo validated before it is sent to Eurostat. The numbers are compared with the published data in Sweden. It is also compared with the data sent to Eurostat in the previous quarter and even compared with data from the same quarter previous year.  

Less than one percent of the objects are imputed. Non response are on a very low level. 

None at present.

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