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The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs is responsible for welfare. This is defined as social security in the case of illness, old age and for the family; social services; health care; promotion of health and children's rights; individual help for persons with disabilities and coordination of the national disability policies.
These tables are lists of social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP compiled by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") into the OECD Social Expenditure Database which "includes reliable and internationally comparable statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at programme level." [1]
The child allowance in Sweden started from the General Child Allowance in 1948. [7] Parents in Sweden receive cash benefits to ease the burden of raising children who are under 16 years old, barnbidrag. Generally, Swedish parents receive a flat rate child allowance of SEK 1050 per month for one child, which is tax-exempt.
The following list provides information relating to the (gross) minimum wages (before tax & social charges) of in the European Union member states. The calculations are based on the assumption of a 40-hour working week and a 52-week year, with the exceptions of France (35 hours), [1] Belgium (38 hours), [2] Ireland (39 hours), [1] and Germany (39.1 hours).
Statistics Sweden: SFI Total Female Male Students Enrolled 2003 2013, ISSN 1654-4447 p 229. According to the SFI and Vuxenutbildningen Luleå, the Swedish for immigrants program comprises three different tiers: Sfi 1, Sfi 2, and Sfi 3. Sfi 1 consists of the study courses A and B, which are aimed at pupils with little or no education and ...
Like most other countries, Sweden is home to a variety of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Among those with international reach are the Nobel Foundation and the Olof Palme International Center .
In 2016, 1,784,497 residents were foreign born, 535,805 were born in Sweden to two parents born abroad, 739,813 had one parent born abroad and 6,935,038 had no foreign born parents. Statistics Sweden counts people born abroad or with two parents born abroad as having a foreign background, 2,320,302 persons met that requirement. [64]
Professional associations based in Sweden (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Non-profit organizations based in Sweden" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.