February 13, 2012
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Society: 21 Jan 12
Alice reclaimed top spot in the annual Swedish baby names list, with William riding a royal wave to ascend to the throne of top boy names, a new report shows.
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Society: 19 Jan 12
Despite Sweden's reputation as a home for attractive young blondes, the average Swede is 40+, munches on a weekly bag of sweets, washed down with a glass or two of alcohol, while relaxing in front of the TV, a new report shows.
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Science & Technology: 28 Dec 11
Many Somalis in Sweden feel dismissed when visiting a doctor in Sweden, according to a new study, which shows that many end up looking abroad for medical treatment as a result.
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Politics: 7 Dec 11
Support for the Social Democrats is at a new record low of 27.7 percent, according to a new major poll by Statistics Sweden, beating a previous low of 29 percent.
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Politics: 26 Nov 11
More than one third of people registered as unemployed come from outside Sweden, according to a new unofficial report revealed by Dagens Nyheter.
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Politics: 23 Nov 11
The number of people coming to Sweden to work is rising at the same time as the number of refugees coming to the country is falling, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 7 Nov 11
Sweden can't afford to keep discriminating against those living in the suburbs and thereby missing out on the payback of years of investment in education and skills, journalist Carlos Rojas argues.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 11
Despite the turbulent financial climate, Swedes aren't cropping their beauty budget, according to recent figures from Statistics Sweden.
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National: 25 Sep 11
Centuries of female dominance in population statistics will be broken within the next four years. In 2015 the surplus of women in Sweden will be turned to a male surplus.
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Society: 31 Aug 11
While Swedish women are spending less time on household chores that they were a decade ago, they continue to take a greater share than their male partners, a new study shows.
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Business & Money: 11 Aug 11
Sweden's inflation rate rose at a higher clip in July than in the previous month, partly due to rising mortgage interest costs, although consumer prices remained flat.
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Society: 2 Aug 11
More Swedish lesbians than gay men have taken advantage of rules allowing same-sex couple's to get married, new statistics show.
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Business & Money: 29 Jul 11
Sweden's economy grew by one percent in the second quarter of 2011, according to new statistics, with year-on-year growth reaching 5.3 percent.
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Society: 23 Jun 11
Since the 1990's it has become increasingly more common for Swedish families to choose to have a third child, a new study from Statistics Sweden shows.
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Society: 16 Jun 11
A municipality in northwestern Sweden wants to offer financial aid to employees in need of fertility treatment in an attempt to recruit new residents to the area and boost dwindling population figures.
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Business & Money: 15 Jun 11
Nearly two thirds of Swedes say they are against adoption of the euro, the highest figure since polling began, according to a new survey.
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Society: 9 Jun 11
The number of foreign tourists visiting Sweden climbed 3 percent during the first four months of 2011, new statistics from the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth show, prompting hopes of a new record year.
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Politics: 8 Jun 11
Sweden's centre-left opposition political parties have more support among voters than the governing centre-right Alliance, according to a poll by Statistics Sweden.
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Business & Money: 27 May 11
The Swedish economy continues to expand, growing by 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2011, according to new statistics, although GDP growth has slowed slightly.
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Business & Money: 9 May 11
The divide between Sweden's wealthiest and poorest areas is increasing, according to new statistics, which also reveal that nearly all of the 100 wealthiest areas can be found in Stockholm.
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Education: 9 May 11
The number of newly-built student apartments completed in 2010 fell sharply compared to the year before, amounting to only about one tenth of the number of units completed in 2009.
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Business & Money: 3 May 11
The north Stockholm suburb of Solna has been named the most business-friendly municipality in Sweden, according to a new ranking.
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National: 12 Apr 11
Swedish inflation rose at a higher rate in March than the previous month driven by price hikes for clothing and footwear and housing, official data showed on Tuesday.
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Politics: 11 Apr 11
A Sweden Democrat member of parliament has escaped censure from the party hierarchy despite linking group rape to men with foreign backgrounds and arguing that their "culture of gender inequality" was to blame.
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Society: 27 Mar 11
As meat prices continue to fall, Swedes are taking the chance to eat more and more, new figures show.
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Business & Money: 18 Mar 11
As the economy continues to heat up, Swedes are working more overtime than ever before, with extra hours clocked in the sectors shooting up by more than 30 percent.
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National: 17 Mar 11
Swedes are living longer than ever before, according to new statistics, with residents of one upscale Stockholm suburb claiming the highest average life-expectancy for both sexes.
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Business & Money: 17 Mar 11
Sweden's unemployment rate dropped to 7.9 percent in February according to official statistics, as the rapid recovery from recession gathered pace.
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Society: 4 Mar 11
Sweden's bakers and confectioners make up the profession with the highest proportion of workers born outside Europe, new statistics show.
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Society: 18 Feb 11
Sweden's population continued to grow at the end of 2010, despite a drop in immigration for the first time since 2004.
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Society: 20 Jan 11
The average Swede may be getting older, heavier, and consuming more alcohol, but he also cares more about the environment, according to new study.
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Society: 20 Jan 11
Alice and Lucas are no longer the most popular names for children born in Sweden, new statistics show.
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Politics: 10 Jan 11
Sweden's childcare allowance, strongly promoted by the Christian Democrats as a way to help parents who wish to spend more time at home with their young children, has been a fiasco, according to a previously unreleased report.
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Society: 28 Dec 10
Slightly more than 1,600 individuals in Sweden are more than a 100 years old, Sweden's statistics agency reported on Tuesday.
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National: 20 Dec 10
The Swedish population continued to grow in 2010, but at a slower pace than 2009, according to new official statistics.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 10
Sweden's capital Stockholm is the 12th most expensive city in which to buy a home, according to a major international study.
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Business & Money: 15 Dec 10
Sweden’s central bank, the Riksbank, once again hiked the country’s benchmark interest rate by 0.25 percent on Wednesday, bringing the interest rate up to 1.25 percent.
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Business & Money: 15 Nov 10
Swedish households increased their bank loans by 53 billion kronor ($7.72 billion) in the third quarter, the highest increase ever recorded for July to September, Statistics Sweden (SCB) reported on Monday.
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Business & Money: 1 Oct 10
Housing rents in Sweden increased by an average 1.6 percent in 2010, down from a 3.3 percent rise in 2009 with an average two bedroom apartment costing an average of 5,644 kronor ($844) per month.
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Business & Money: 22 Sep 10
Sweden's GDP continued its strong development in many areas in the second quarter, rising 4.6 percent in seasonally adjusted figures compared to the same quarter last year, Statistics Sweden reported on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 9 Sep 10
Consumer prices remained unchanged between July and August, according to Statistics Sweden with the annual inflation rate dropping to 0.9 percent, down from 1.1 percent in July.
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Business & Money: 8 Sep 10
Sweden's second quarter GDP growth was even greater previously reported, according to revised figures from Statistics Sweden.
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Politics: 5 Aug 10
The Swedish economy will continue to strengthen in coming months, Finance Minister Anders Borg has said. But he also warned that there remained risks to global economic stability.
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Business & Money: 5 Aug 10
Unemployment in Sweden climbed to 9.5 percent of the workforce in June, from 8.8 percent in May but remained down on last year, new figures showed on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 30 Jul 10
Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.7 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period last year, Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB) reported on Friday.
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Business & Money: 9 Jul 10
Sweden reported significant gains in industrial output in May, mirroring improvements elsewhere in Europe, according to new figures released on Friday.
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Business & Money: 28 Jun 10
In May, Sweden's net trade surplus declined to 2.7 billion kronor ($348.59 million) from 8.1 billion the previous year, Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB) reported on Monday.
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Business & Money: 22 Jun 10
New unemployment figures from Statistics Sweden for the month of May show no increase in the number of unemployed for the first time in 18 months, with 434,000 people out of work, corresponding to 8.8 percent of the workforce.
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Business & Money: 21 Jun 10
Women are set to dominate professions that have traditionally been the reserve of men and within 20 years will be the majority among economists, lawyers, architects and doctors, a new forecast shows.
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National: 15 Jun 10
A clear majority of Swedes would vote against switching from the krona to the euro if a referendum on whether Sweden should adopt the common European currency were held today, a new poll shows.
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National: 14 Jun 10
Unemployment in Sweden in May amounted to 8.5 percent of the workforce with 395,000 registered job-seekers, according to new Public Employment Service figures, which indicate that young people are not as badly off as claimed.
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Politics: 13 Jun 10
Sweden's Moderates have overtaken the Social Democrats as the country's largest party, according to a new Sifo poll which shows the government coalition nosing ahead of the opposition.
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Business & Money: 11 Jun 10
Employment rates between local- and foreign-born workers differ by more than 30 percentage points in some areas of Sweden, according to a report from Statistics Sweden.
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Politics: 11 Jun 10
The majority of candidates running for the parliamentary election in the fall are middle-aged men, according to a survey from Sveriges Radio's (SR) news service Ekot.
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Politics: 10 Jun 10
The "red-green" coalition enjoys the support of 50.2 percent of the electorate, according to a major new survey from Statistics Sweden (SCB).
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Business & Money: 2 Jun 10
Exports of goods from Sweden increased by 7.6 percent by volume in the first quarter, in comparison with the first quarter of 2009; imports climbed by 8.2 percent, new statistics show.
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Society: 26 May 10
Parental origins affect natural born Swedes for their entire lives, with children of foreign-born parents less inclined to start families, suffering lower life expectancy, and showing divergent housing and migration patterns, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 25 May 10
Unemployment in Sweden climbed in April to 9.8 percent of the workforce with 483,000 registered job-seekers, exceeding expectations and up 80,000 on the corresponding month of 2009, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 18 May 10
After seven straight quarters of a steady decline in the number of available jobs, the demand for labour has increased in the first quarter.
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Business & Money: 11 May 10
The Stockholm stock exchange followed markets across Europe and Asia downwards on Tuesday morning after a day of significant gains on Monday and indicating that the recent turbulence remains.
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Business & Money: 10 May 10
For the first time since the financial crisis, the unemployment rate has begun to fall compared to the situation a year ago. At the end of last week, 221,622 were registered as unemployed with the Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), a decrease of 2,765 from the week before.
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National: 27 Apr 10
The county of Stockholm is now home to over 2 million people, among whom can be found people born in 186 countries, according to a new report from the County Administrative Board of Stockholm.
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National: 15 Apr 10
Sweden's population increased by 84,000 people in 2009 and is set to grow by 600,000 over the next ten years, passing the 10 million mark in 2021, according to a new forecast.
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Society: 12 Apr 10
As average incomes increase, more people in Sweden are falling below the line classified as relative poverty, with single parents particularly affected, new statistics show.
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Business & Money: 7 Apr 10
Turnover at Swedish restaurants and cafés increased by 3.2 percent and 6.8 percent respectively in February as the economy continues to show signs of recovery, according to a new report.
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Politics: 3 Apr 10
Income gaps among Swedish pensioners, and between pensioners and the wider population, have grown over the last 10 years, according to a report from Statistics Sweden covering 1999-2008.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 10
Foreigners own 33,168 summer houses in Sweden, an increase of four percent on 2008 and nine percent on 2007. Germans, Danes and Norwegians dominate the statistics, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 17 Mar 10
The price of the average Swedish house has passed the two million kronor ($300,000) mark for the first time, new statistics show.
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Business & Money: 11 Mar 10
The inflation rate doubled in February to 1.2 percent on January's figure as household mortgage interest payments no longer had a dampening effect, a new report from Statistics Sweden shows.
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National: 2 Mar 10
Immigrants workers make up 41 percent of Sweden's cleaners despite accounting for only 16 percent of the workforce. In the cities the numbers are even higher, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 1 Mar 10
Sweden's GDP declined by 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter, making 2009 the worst year for growth since World War Two, according to a new report from Statistics Sweden (SCB).
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National: 29 Jan 10
Latest figures from Statistics Sweden reveal that in the last 50 years the number of foreigners living in Sweden or people with two foreign-born parents has risen from four to nearly 20 percent.
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Business & Money: 21 Jan 10
Stockholm-area men dominate the ranks of the roughly 40,000 Swedes who earn more than one million kronor ($139,000) per year, fresh statistics show.
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National: 2 Jan 10
The Swedish National Agency for Education's new method for calculating funding for independent high schools means that the institutions risk losing millions of kronor every year.
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National: 21 Dec 09
Sweden's population grew more in 2009 than it has in any year since 1946, according to new figures from Statistics Sweden.
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National: 15 Dec 09
A majority of Swedes would favour switching from the krona to the euro if a referendum on whether Sweden should adopt the common European currency were held today, a new poll shows.
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Politics: 10 Dec 09
The far-right Sweden Democrat party enjoys the support of 5.1 percent of the electorate, according to a major new survey from Statistics Sweden.
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National: 8 Dec 09
Having a university degree is no guarantee for immigrants hoping to succeed in the Swedish labour market, a new study shows.
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Business & Money: 30 Nov 09
Social assistance payments to Swedes struggling to make ends meet jumped by 19 percent during the third quarter, new statistics show.
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Science & Technology: 25 Nov 09
After decades of progressive weight gain, Swedes’ waistlines appear to have stopped expanding, a new study shows.
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Society: 23 Nov 09
The southern Swedish city of Malmö has more children living in families with a low standard of living than in any other municipality in Sweden, new statistics show.
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Business & Money: 19 Nov 09
Unemployment in Sweden shrunk unexpectedly in October, dropping to 8.1 percent of the workforce, according to new statistics. Nevertheless, one in four Swedes under age 25 remain out of work.
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Business & Money: 17 Nov 09
Sweden’s manufacturing sector shed more than 80,000 jobs in the third quarter compared with the same period in 2008, marking the sector’s sharpest year-on-year employment drop since 1993.
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Politics: 23 Sep 09
Immigrants to Sweden continue to flock to a few, high-immigrant concentration areas, new statistics show, prompting one politician to conclude the country's integration politics have failed.
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Business & Money: 20 Aug 09
454,000 Swedes were registered as unemployed during the second quarter of 2009, new figures from Statistics Sweden show.
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Business & Money: 19 Aug 09
Residential construction collapsed by 45 percent during the first half of 2009, new figures show. Analysts warn of housing shortages and high prices as a result.
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Society: 17 Aug 09
The number of people claiming benefits in Sweden declined for the fourth consecutive year in 2008, according to new figures. But the tide is about to turn, analysts warn.
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Society: 17 Aug 09
Sweden's population increased to almost 9.3 million people during the first half of 2009 due to a higher birthrate, new figures indicate.
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Business & Money: 13 Aug 09
The Stockholm stock exchange continued its meteoric rise since the turn of the year and set a new annual high on Thursday.
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Education: 12 Aug 09
More than one in ten Swedish school pupils fall below minimum standards for entering high school, according to new statistics from the Swedish Board of Education.
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Business & Money: 31 Jul 09
Sweden's GDP fell by 6.2 percent during the second quarter, according to new figures published on Friday.
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Society: 29 Jul 09
A Swedish family’s bid to honour late pop star Michael Jackson by naming their daughter Michael has been scuttled by the country’s tax agency.
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Business & Money: 28 Jul 09
Despite recent job cuts in the wake of the financial crisis, there are almost twice the number of women over the age of 65 working in Sweden today than four years ago, new statistics published on Tuesday show.
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Society: 21 Jul 09
More female than male same-sex couples have chosen to marry since Swedish homosexuals were granted the legal right to marry on May 1st of this year.
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Business & Money: 23 Jun 09
Support for Sweden joining the eurozone has reached its highest point since the 2003 referendum, with voters in favour of retaining the krona maintaining a lead of just one percentage point in a new poll.
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National: 29 May 09
Sweden’s GDP took a historic dive in the first quarter of 2009, plummeting by 6.5 percent, according to new statistics.
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Business & Money: 26 May 09
The number of unemployed in Sweden stabilized at 8.3 percent of the workforce in April with 403,000 out of work, according to a new report published on Tuesday.
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Education: 27 Apr 09
The number of students enrolled at Swedish universities climbed in 2008 for the first time since the early 2000s, new statistics show. Foreign students account for a large part of the increase.
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National: 23 Apr 09
Sweden's unemployment rate climbed to 8.3 percent in March, the fifth consecutive monthly rise and up from 8.0 percent in February Statistics Sweden (SCB) said on Thursday.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Apr 09
On paper, Sweden became transparent in 1776 with the enactment of freedom of information and freedom of speech laws. About 70 countries have freedom of information laws in use today. On the web, we’re just about getting our feet wet, writes Sweden.se editor Rikard Lagerberg.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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