SWIP - Swedish income panel 2000, assessment family
The Swedish income panel was originally set up in the beginning of the 90s to make studies of how immigrants assimilate in the Swedish labour market possible. It consists of large samples of foreign-born and Swedish-born persons. Income information from registers is added for nearly 40 years. In addition income information relating to spouses is also available as well as for a subset of mothers and fathers. This makes it possible to construct measures of household income based on a relatively narrow definition. However, starting in 1998 there is also more information making it possible to include children over 18 and their incomes in the family. By matching with some different additional registers information has been added for people who have been unemployed or involved in labour market programmes during the 90s, on causes of deaths for people who have deceased since 1978 and on recent arrived immigrants from various origins. It has turned out that the data-base is quite useful for analysing research-questions other than originally motivating construction of the panel. The panel has been used for cross country comparisons of immigrants in the labour market and to analyse income mobility for different breakdowns of the population, and analyses the development in cohort income. There have been analyses of social assistance receipt among immigrants as well as studies of intergeneration mobility of income, the labour market situation of young immigrants and the second generation of immigrants. On-going work includes evaluation of labour market training programmes and studies of early retirement among immigrants. Planned work includes studies of the economic transition from child to adulthood during the 80s and 90s as well as studies of how frequent immigrant children are subject to measures under the Social Service Act and the Care of Youth Persons Act. The potentials of the Swedish Income Panel can be understood if one compares it with better known income-panels in other countries. For example SWIP covers more years and has a larger sample than the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). On the other hand, the fact that information is obtained from registers only makes this Swedish panel less rich in variables. There are striking parallels between the Gothenburg Income Panel and the labour market panel at the Centre for Labour Market and Social Research in Aarhus for the Danish population.
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Economic indicators indicate in which direction an economy is headed and include, for example, GDP growth rate, employment, inflation and interest rate, consumer and investor activity, household debt. Use note: This topic is also used for economic conditions of individuals and households which are surveyed or registered.
Data on the accumulation of personal assets, including income, property, investments and savings.
Groups of individuals that differ from the majority of population in some way. Differentiating characteristics include, for instance, ethnicity, religion, health, sexual orientation, first language (mother tongue) and culture. Use note: For some minority issues, it may be useful to select additional topics such as 'Equality, inequality and social exclusion' or 'Language and linguistics'.
Issues related to the actual provision of social welfare, who provides social welfare services in practice and to what extent, how the actual services are structured. For example, questions on how a local government has organised services for the elderly.
THE RELATIVELY PERMANENT CHANGE IN USUAL PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF PEOPLE, FAMILIES, AND GROUPS
DIVISION OF A COUNTRY'S GNP AMONG ITS POPULATION