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Name | Possible values (share of the total population for the county) | Comment |
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Housing type | Cooperative apartment (35%) Owned housing (31%) Rented housing (31%) | Cooperative apartments are a common way of owning your apartment in Sweden. Formally, however, the household purchases a share of a property. The dataset does not contain any information on 3% of the population. |
Education | Less than Upper secondary school educated (10%) Upper secondary school educated (35%) University educated (52%) | The dataset does not contain any information on 3% of the population. The original dataset categorises the university education into two steps, while we have merged them. |
Income | Income below median (50%) Income above median (50%) | Share of the area population (age 20 and above) who have an income below or above Stockholm Region median income. |
Population density | Sparsely populated Semi densely populated Densely populated | Classification by Statistics Sweden. |
Age | < 20 years old (24%) 20–29 years old (13%) 30–39 years old (15%) 40–64 years old (31%) > 65 years old (16%) | The original dataset divides the age groups into ~ 5-year classes (i.e. 20–24, 25–29). For simplification purposes we merged them into five classes |
Country of birth | Born in Sweden (66%) Abroad (34%) | Note that the Abroad groups is quite diverse, with both people who have immigrated as refugees as well as e.g. labour migration. |
Employment | Employed (80%) Non-employed (20%) | Note that this variable does not indicate only unemployment, but ‘non-employed’ includes e.g. students and retirees. The variable only describes the population of 20–64 year olds (most people retire at 65). |
Gender | Male (50%) Female (50%) |