Sweden

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Employment:

1. during the measurement week, were gainfully employed for at least one hour either as paid employees or as entrepreneurs or self-employed and persons working as unpaid helpers in a business belonging to spouse or other family member in the same household (employed and at work);
2. who did not carry out any work according to the above definition, but who had employment or work as unpaid family workers or as entrepreneurs or self-employed and who were temporarily absent during the entire measurement week because of illness, vacation, other leave (care of children, studies, military service, other leave or industrial dispute), irrespective of whether or not the absence was paid (employed, temporarily absent).

1. full- and part-time workers seeking other work during the measurement week;.
2. full- and part-time students working full- or part-time;
3. persons on temporary lay-off with pay (lay-off without pay does not exist in Sweden);
4. persons who performed some work for pay or profit during the measurement week while being subject to compulsory schooling or retired and receiving a pension or registered as jobseekers at an employment office or receiving unemployment benefits;
5. paid apprentices and trainees;
6. participants in employment promotion schemes (sheltered workshops, relief work, youth teams or employed on special public grants or subsidies);
7. paid and unpaid family workers, including those who were temporarily absent from work during the measurement week;
8. private domestic servants;
9. members of producers´ co-operatives;
10. volunteer and career members of the armed forces;
11. conscripts and persons doing civilian service equivalent to military service and provided they were employed prior to and on leave (i.e. temporarily absent) from a civil job during their military or civilian service.

Excluded from the Swedish labour force are persons who work abroad and have no work in Sweden, whether commuting across a border or both living and working in a foreign country.

Unemployment:

Full-time students looking for full- or part-time work are excluded from the unemployed and considered as inactive; however, data about the size of this group are collected.

Seasonal workers awaiting agricultural or other kind of seasonal work are classified as unemployed provided they fulfill the criteria of the unemployment definition; otherwise, they are classified as out of the labour force.

"Having looked for work" is interpreted as having taken one or more of the following actions during the four weeks preceding the interview: contacted the employment office or employers directly; read and/or placed advertisements; contacted friends or relatives, etc.

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1987: revised concepts and definitions. 1981: introduction of CATI. 1995: new industrial classification. 1997: new occupational classification. 2000: new educational classification. 2003: major changes are planned according to EU regulations.

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