SwedPop - Swedish Population Databases for Research

SwedPop is a national research infrastructure with micro-level demographic data about the Swedish population, including linked life-courses for c. 3.5 million individuals from the 17th to the 20th centuries in selected regions, full-count national censuses and death records from 1860-2019.

The aim of SwedPop is to provide accessible and harmonised high-quality Swedish population data with a large number of demographic and socio-economic variables. The data will be of great value to both Swedish and international researchers.

SwedPop will make it possible to take full advantage of the rich national longitudinal population registers and serve as an effective tool for new and path breaking research, especially in the social sciences and medicine.

Particular advantages with SwedPop are the wide geographic coverage of the data, the comparative power and the longitudinal features closing the gap between historic data and modern population registers.

SwedPop was established in 2018 with support from VR and in a five-year-project 2018-2022 longitudinal data and panel data from four Swedish regions,including the largest cities Stockholm and Gothenburg are merged with full count census data into a coherent data infrastructure with harmonized data and standardised variables and data format.

A tool for data extraction has been developed and from 2021 unrestricted data can be downloaded from the web-portal swedpop.se.

In the proposed 2023-2026 project the specific objectives are:Finalising harmonization, standardisation and linkage of dataDeveloping the data extraction tool with additional output formatsOrganizing advanced and effective user support and trainingFinalizing data collection that started in the 2018-2022 projectImproving access to individual-level income data in the longitudinal databasesUpdating mortality data and adding cause of death data for the pandemic years 1917-1920.