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Swedish people are feeling depressed about their future jobs situation

Friday, 04 January 2013
Swedish households have grown to develop increased pessimism about the Swedish labour market and the future does not look rosy, they believe.

If the latest survey of household perception and expectations about the labour market, carried out by the pooling organisation, Skop is true, then the Swedish jobs market is not looking rosy. During the period from 1st to 13th December 2012 interviewed, Skop interviewed 1,000 people.

As the result, Skop's general employment index fell by 5.3 points from the survey in October / November to -57.5. The index is now at its lowest level since June 2009. The index is calculated as the difference between those who believe that unemployment will decrease or increase.

71 percent of respondent fear that unemployment will increase, compared with 66 percent in the previous survey. 13.6 percent believe that unemployment will decrease, compared with 14.1 percent in previous survey.

"Pessimists dominate the employment in both the private and in the public sector. In both the private sector and among public sector employees are more who fear reduced number of employees in their workplace than those who believes that the number of employees will increase, " says Skop analyst Sofia Hultaker Hammarström, said.

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