LABO30: Proportion (percent) of the population who does not work or study, by reporting country, country background, population category, time, sex, age and unit

Registred residents aged 20-29 who are not working, studying, or in compulsory military service. On Residents: Please note that refugees/asylum seekers are not automatically registered as residents in the Nordic countries, and are therefore not fully included in the statistics of this matrix. This means that for example immigrants from Ukraine are underestimated, since they have not been in a Nordic country long enough or otherwise do not meet the rules for population registration. See the respective country's regulations for further information. The frequency is calculated by dividing the amount neither employed nor enrolled in education in a given group by to total population in the group. Example: Frequency Neither employed nor enrolled in education, age group 16-29 = (16-29 neither employed nor enrolled in education) / (Total 16-29 population). Definition of Country Background:
Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents: their own country of birth.
Descendants: mother's country of birth, or father's country of birth if mother's is unknown.
Rest of the population: Reporting country i.e. one or both parents' country of birth is the reporting country. The list of countries reported under Country Background was expanded in the 2024 update. For the first three years in the matrix, a total of 20 countries were used. They were the largest non-Nordic countries of birth in each Nordic country and at a Nordic level in 2020/2021. For each Nordic country, the countries were ranked from largest to smallest in terms of population size. The countries were then given a sum-rank for the Nordic region, and then ranked again at a Nordic level. In addition, for the purpose of comparison, the chosen countries had to be ranked among the 25 highest in at least 3 of the 5 Nordic countries. The result was 20 countries for foreign-born with two foreign-born parents, and 9 countries for descendants. For the last three years in the matrix, a complete list of countries, following the ISO 3166-2 standard, has been used. A person can have a background in a country that does not exist anymore, for example Former Soviet Union. For Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Sweden they are still registered as having their background in that country, while Norway have registrered these under a today existing country (so that people with a background in Former Soviet Union are registered under Russian Federation etc.). Definition of Population Category:
Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents: Foreign-born with native-born adoptive parents are excluded.
Descendants: Native-born with two foreign-born parents.
Rest of population: Total population excluding descendants and foreign-born with two foreign-born parents. In some cases, subsets do not add up to specified totals. This is because summation in these cases took place after small values were suppressed for confidentiality reasons. The differences are, however, small in relation to the values. This matrix is the result of an integration and migration co-operation project involving the Nordic Statistical Institutes.

reporting country

Denmark

Reference date/week: Last working day of November, education September 30th.

Denmark

Population and age as of December 31st previous year.

Denmark

Definition: Registered residents who are not working, studying, or in compulsory military service. Working persons are people who are working at least one hour in the week of reference. The employed are either employees, self-employed or assisting spouses. Military service is included as employment. Studying persons are people who are enrolled in a full-time education on the day of reference. Educations from preschool to PhD are included, but adult or continuing education, as well as education taken outside Denmark, are not included.

Denmark

Resident: A registered resident with a national identity number who has stayed or intends to stay in the country for more than 3-6 months.

Denmark

On Country background:
Residents born in Greenland or the Faroe Islands figure with Denmark as country background.
Residents born in overseas territories figure with the sovereign state as country background (e.g. Gibraltar and Falkland Islands are contained in United Kingdom, French Polynesia and New Caledonia are contained in France, Aruba and Curaçao are contrained in The Netherlands etc.).
Dissolved contries might occur, e.g. Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, since some persons are still registered with these countries as their country of birth, if they immigrated when these countries still existed.
Palestine has only been used as a possible place of birth since 1st January 2022. Only persons who immigrated later than this date, or who have requested a change, are registered with Palestine as their place of birth. Therefore, the number of Palestinians in Denmark is underreported. Other Palestinians will figure as unknown or a neighbouring country.

Finland

Reference date: End of the year.

Finland

Population and age as of December 31st previous year.

Finland

Resident: A registered resident with a national identity number who has stayed or intends to stay in the country for more than 12 months.

Finland

Includes values for Åland.

Norway

Reference date/week: Usually third week of November.

Norway

Population as of January 1st, age as of December 31st previous year.

Norway

Resident: A registered resident with a national identity number who has stayed or intends to stay in the country for more than 6 months.

Norway

Foreign-born with two foreign-born parents and four foreign-born grandparents. Adopted foreign-born are excluded.

Norway

Descendants: Native-born with two foreign-born parents and four foreign-born grandparents.

Sweden

Reference date/week: Employment in November, Education Autumn term.

Sweden

Definition: Persons not registered as gainfully employed in the Labour statistics based on administrative sources and not registered in education during the autumn term. Payed military work is considered employment. Between July 1 2010 and July 1 2017 Sweden did not have mandatory military services.

Sweden

Percentages or frequencies are produced with a Nominator of minimum 6 individuals and/or Denominator of a minimum of 50 individuals per cell for years 2019 and onwards.

Sweden

Population and age as of December 31st previous year.

Sweden

Resident: A registered resident with a national identity number who has stayed or intends to stay in the country for more than 12 months.

Sweden

Break in time series, 2020 and onwards: Change in register used for labour market status, from RAMS to BAS. Here, preliminary BAS data, based on the month of November, is used for 2020-2024.