A recent project within this field was Knowledge, Skills and Economic Growth, 1870-2000 (FAS 2002:0649) led by Jonas Ljungberg.

Among the publications of this project are, so far:

• A PhD dissertation by Fay Lundh Nilsson (2007), Lönande lärande. Teknologisk förändring, yrkesskicklighet och lön i svensk verkstadsindustri omkring 1900 [Profitable Learning – technological change, skills and wages in the Swedish engineering industry around 1900] (Lund Studies in Economic History, 40),
• A booklet by Anders Nilsson (2008), Yrkesutbildningen i Sverige 1850-1910 [Vocational education in Sweden, 1850-1910].
• Årsböcker i svensk undervisningshistoria, vol 208,
• An article where the time series on human capital stocks and average years of schooling, for Sweden 1870-2000, are presented and analysed (Ljungberg and Nilsson 2009 – available online).
• Within this field is also Jonas Ljungberg (2004), ’Did Higher Technical Education Pay?’ (in J. Ljungberg and J-P Smits (eds), Technology and Human Capital in Historical Perspective, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan)

Data

Human capital stocks (STOCK) and average years of schooling (School): Sweden , 1870-2000 .xls .doc

The research was initially aimed at economic policy and money and prices in 18th century Sweden (see Göran Ahlström 1972, 1974, 1989), foreign trade and finance (Gunnar Fridlizius 1959 and 1981) and the history of financial institutions (see Göran Ahlström, Lars Pettersson and Lennart Schön 1989).

Current research undertakings are directed towards exchange rates and market integration, monetary policy in the 19th and 20th century Sweden (Håkan Lobell 1995, 2000 and 2002), the development of monetary theory in early 19th century Sweden (Håkan Lobell and Lars Pettersson) and Sweden's entry and role in the Bretton Woodssystem (Göran Ahlström and Benny Carlsson).

A selection of data from this accumulated research is presented in the LU-MADD database.

Data

• Exchange Rates
• Money Stock and Components
• Foreign Exchange Market
• Import and Export of Gold and Silver 1836-1950 .xls  .doc
• Riksbanken (The Bank of Sweden)
• The Riksbank Purchases and Selling of Foreign Exchange .xls .doc
• Interest rates

Another field of research has been the integration of immigrants, with studies concerning employment, income, return migration, fertility, and health.

A selection of data useful in the study of historical and current demography is presented in the LU-MADD database.

Data

Accumulated Fertility, 1735 - 1983 .xls .doc

Live Births and Deaths, 1749 - 1998
5 year periods .xls .doc
Yearly data .xls .doc

Marriages and Divorces 1749 - 1998
5 year periods .xls .doc
Yearly data .xls .doc

Mean Age at Marriage 1861 - 1997
5 year periods .xls .doc
Yearly data .xls .doc

Migration 1749 - 1998
5 year periods .xls .doc
Yearly data .xls .doc

Share never married 1876 - 1977 .xls .doc

Population Growth 1749 - 1998
5 year periods .xls .doc
Yearly data .xls .doc

Jörberg assembled and analysed prices on a large number of mainly agricultural products in twenty-four counties in Sweden. Numerous price series and price deflators were constructed and analysed in the research project and book series Historiska nationalräkenskaper för Sverige 1800–1980 Vol. 1-9. [Historical National Accounts for Sweden 1800–1980 Vol. 1-9.] (Lennart Schön, Olle Krantz, Jonas Ljungberg and Lars Pettersson (Lund, 1986–1995)).

A number of dissertations in price and wage history have also been published. Jonas Ljungberg’s Priser och marknadskrafter i Sverige 1885–1969 [Prices and Market Processes in Sweden 1885–1969] (Lund, 1990) analyse the long-term behaviour of prices on industrial products in Sweden. Data on gender- and skill differentiated wages are assembled and analysed in a long-term perspective by Lars Svensson in Closing the Gender Gap. Determinants of Changes in the Female-to-Male Wage Ratio in Swedish Manufacturing 1913-1990. (Lund, 1995).

A selection of price and wage data from this accumulated research is presented in the LU-MADD database.

Agricultural products

Dairy
Butter Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc

Meat
Beef Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc
Pork Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc

Grain
Barley Prices 1794-1914 .xls .doc
Oat Prices 1776-1914 .xls .doc
Rye Prices 1776-1914 .xls .doc
Wheat Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc

Livestock
Cow Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc
Oxen Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc
Pig Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc
Sheep Prices 1803-1914 .xls .doc

Forestry

Timber
Log Timber Prices 1794-1914 .xls .doc

Sawn Products

Paper and Pulp

Manufacturing Industry Products

Branch Price Index 1885–1969: (1910/12=100)
Iron and Steel Works .xls .doc
Metal Works .xls .doc
Iron and Metal Manufacturing .xls .doc
Machinery Industries .xls .doc
Electro Technical Industry .xls .doc
Shipbuilding Industry .xls .doc
Motor Industry .xls .doc
Bicycle Industry .xls .doc
Mining Industry .xls .doc

Glass Industry .xls .doc
Brickwork and Cement Industries .xls .doc

Sawmill Industries .xls .doc
Joinery Industry .xls .doc

Pulp and Paper Industries .xls .doc
Other Paper and Package Industries .xls .doc
Printing Industry .xls .doc

Butchery Industry .xls .doc
Dairies .xls .doc
Fat Industry .xls .doc
Milling Industry .xls .doc
Bakery Industry .xls .doc
Sugar Industry .xls .doc
Confectionery Industries .xls .doc
Other Food Industries .xls .doc
Liqour Industry .xls .doc
Breweries .xls .doc
Tobacco Industry .xls .doc

Spinning and Weaving Industries .xls .doc
Ready-made Clothes Industry .xls .doc
Boots and Shoe Industry .xls .doc

Tanneries .xls .doc
Rubber Products Industry .xls .doc  

Fertilizer Industry .xls .doc
Dye Industry .xls .doc
Soap and Detergents Industry .xls .doc
Chemicals Industry .xls .doc
Technic-chemical Industry .xls .doc
Petrol Refineries .xls .doc

Main Branch Price Index and PPI 1885–1969: (1910/12=100)
Mining and Metalwork Industries .xls .doc
Stone and Glass Industries .xls .doc
Wood Industries .xls .doc
Paper and Printing Industries .xls .doc
Foodstuff Industries .xls .doc
Textiles and Clothing Industries .xls .doc
Leather and Rubber Industries .xls .doc
Chemical Industries .xls .doc
Electricity and Energy Industries .xls .doc
Producer Price Index 1885–1969 .xls .doc

Raw Materials

Wages

Agriculture
Day Wages 1803-1914 .xls .doc

Manufacturing

Services

Accounts of methodology, principles of empirical estimation, sources et cetera are to be found in Krantz, Olle and Schön, Lennart (2007), Swedish Historical National Accounts 1800–2000, Lund Studies in Economic History 41, Lund; Schön & Krantz (2012), Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560–2010, Lund Papers in Economic History 123, Lund University; Schön & Krantz (2015), New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices, Lund Papers in Economic History 140, Lund University.

© Olle Krantz & Lennart Schön

Swedish Historical National Accounts 1800–2000

Accounts of methodology, principles of empirical estimation, sources et cetera are to be found in Krantz, Olle and Schön, Lennart (2007).

Reference: Krantz, Olle and Schön, Lennart (2007), Swedish Historical National Accounts 1800-2000, Lund Studies in Economic History 41, Lund; 

Note: The series in constant prices are calculated on the basis of chain indices with yearly links.

Tables (2007)

• The Complete Data Set
• I: Value added, Main Sectors, and GDP.  Factor prices,  Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2000
• II: GDP in factor and market prices. Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2000
• III: GDP by destination in Market Prices. Mill. SEK. Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2000
• IV: Population and GDP per capita in Market and Factor Prices. Constant Prices. Index 1930=100. 1800―2000
• V. Employment 1850―2000
• VI. Agriculture and Ancillaries Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• VII. Manufacturing Industry and Handicrafts. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• VIII. Building and Construction. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• IX. Transport and Communications. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• X. Private Services. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• XI. Public Service Production. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• XII. Dwelling Service Production. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• XIII. Deflators 1800―1950. 1910/12=100

Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560―2010

The Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560–2010, released in 2012, presents a new database with an extended and revised version of SHNA 1800–2000.

Principles for the construction of the new data and for the revisions of previous versions are to be found in Schön & Krantz (2012), Swedish Historical National Accounts 1560–2010, Lund Papers in Economic History 123, Lund University.

Tables (2012)

• The Complete Data Set
• Table I. GDP and GDP per capita. Factor Prices, Constant Prices. 1560-2010
• Table II. Value added, Main Sectors and GDP. Factor prices, Mill. SEK, Constant Prices. 1560―1800
• Table III. Value added, Main Sectors, and GDP. Factor prices, Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2010
• Table IV. Unpaid Domestic Services. Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2010
• Table V. GDP in factor and market prices and Population. Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2010
• Table VI. GDP by destination in Market Prices. Mill. SEK, Current and Constant Prices. 1800―2010
• Table VII. Employment 1850―2010
• Table VIII. Agriculture and Ancillaries Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table IX. Manufacturing Industry and Handicrafts. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table X. Building and Construction. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table XI. Transport and Communications. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table XII. Private Services. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table XIII. Public Services. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table XIV. Services of Dwellings. Production Account 1800―1950. Current Prices
• Table XV. Deflators 1800―1950. 1910/12=100