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From year 2004 there has been changes in the process regarding the employment data. A new source is used to identify self-employed and a minor adjustment of the method to classified employees has been made. More information about the changes is available in Swedish at our homepage www.scb.se/rams. level of education The classification by level of educational attainment is according to the Swedish national educational classification (SUN)

Labour costs (ESA2010), current prices, SEK million by industrial classifcation SNI 2007. Quarter 1993K1 - 2018K32016-09-14 Social contributions of employers have been revised for the period 2006-2013 with respect to reductions of social contributions for young and elderly persons. These revisions have affected the distribution of social contributions of employers between market producers (including producers for own final use) and the general government sector. Total social contributions of employers for the economy as a whole have not been changed for the period 2006-2013. For market producers (including producers for own final use) social contributions of employers have been adjusted downwards and payroll taxes have been adjusted upwards with the same amount.The Church of Sweden is reclassified in the year 2000 from the municipal sector to sector NPISH. Before year 2000 the church of Sweden is included in Municipalities and Federations of local government authorities.Swedish Standard Industrial Classification (SNI 2007) and corresponds to Kind of economic activity (NACE Rev. 2) up to 4-digit level. In some cases a marginal difference can be found in reported figures due to rounding off calculations between annual and quarterly National Accounts tables.

Comparisons between different years should be made with caution. Factors that complicate such comparisons, for example, the private sector survey, the degree of non-response, change and improvement in the classification of variables. For employees in municipalities and county councils The occupational variable SSYK is connected from an AID Label-code. 2018, updates have been made in the AID code, which has led to certain changes among SSYK groups. Therefore, comparisons using SSYK before and after 2018 must be done with caution when looking at municipalities and county councils and also the public sector and entire labour market, especially occupations that are common in municipalities and county councils. Double dots (..) refers to the fact that information is not available, is too uncertain to be given or has been removed for reasons of confidentiality. observations standard weighted The salary for men and women is standard weighted with respect to differences in age, education, working hours and sector between women and men. These factors are assumed to affect the salary. The calculation is done to take into account women´s and men´s different distribution in these variables. It means that an average salary is calculated for each group. The weight is the total number of employees in each group. The group is made of combinations of age groups (4), educational groups (2), working time groups (2) and sector groups (2) in each occupation (4-digit SSYK) which means that the total is standard weighted on occupation.