LNU Publications
Since the late 1960s, the Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU) has provided valuable insights into how living conditions and welfare have changed in Sweden. Over the years, LNU data have been used in numerous doctoral theses and scientific articles. Below is a selection of publications and books based on these data.

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Scientific articles
Augustsson, E., Keller Celeste, R., Fors, S., Rehnberg, J., Lennartsson, C. & Agahi, N. (2025). Friends and trends: Friendship across life phases and cohorts. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 135.
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2025.105872
Boye, K. (2025). Paid leave to care for sick children: The limitations and opportunities at work. Community, Work & Family, 28(3), 337–362.
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2023.2295229
Mood, C. & Kjellsson, S. (2025). Divergent incomes, divergent lives? A multidimensional assessment of disparities in the level of living during Sweden’s income equality U-turn, 1968–2010. Mens & Maatschappij, 100(2), 179–200.
DOI: 10.5117/MEM2025.2.004.MOOD
Naurin, E., Markstedt, E., Schneider, M. C., Lizotte, M.-K. & Stolle, D. (2025). The effects of parental leave on attitudes toward the state. Politics & Gender, 21(4), 824–846.
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X25000054
Nilsen, C., Finkel, D., Sindi, S. & Kåreholt, I. (2025). Different stressors across the life course have different paths to impact cognitive and physical aging. Advances in Life Course Research, 63.
DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100661
Rödenhake, E., Fritzell, J., Rostgaard, T. & Agahi, N. (2025). Varför återhämtar sig vissa äldre personer efter förluster och andra inte? Äldre i Centrum: Vetenskapligt supplement, 5(1), 37–53.
DOI: 10.52585/icvs.v5i1.22
2024
Agahi, N., Augustsson, E., McGarrigle, C., Rostgaard, T. & Fritzell, J. (2024). Psychosocial resilience surrounding age-typical losses among older adults in Sweden: Group-based trajectories over a 25-year period. Frontiers in Public Health, 12.
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1434439
Almstedt Valldor, A. (2024). Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe. Social Science Research, 124.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103091
Augustsson, E., Fors, S. & Agahi, N. (2024). 20-year trends in the social participation of the oldest old. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 53(7), 721–730.
DOI: 10.1177/14034948241261720
Bihagen, E., Shahbazian, R. & Kjellsson, S. (2024). Later and less? New evidence on occupational maturity for Swedish women and men. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 89.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100884
Cecchini, V. & Agahi, N. (2024). Does losing family members in midlife matter for late-life mental and cognitive health? A longitudinal study of older Swedes spanning 30 years. Aging & Mental Health, 28(10), 1401–1409.
DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2024.2341877
Grönlund, A. & Öun, I. (2024). Shackled by double disadvantage? Gender, segregation and immigrants’ occupational attainments. Acta Sociologica, 68(1), 83–101.
DOI: 10.1177/00016993231219133
2023
Wahlström, J., Magnusson, C., Brolin Låftman, S. & Svensson, J. (2023). Parents’ drinking, childhood hangover? Parental alcohol use, subjective health complaints and perceived stress among Swedish adolescents aged 10–18 years. BMC Public Health, 23, 162.
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-15097-w
Doctoral theses
Almstedt Valldor, A. (2025). Essays on the Links Between Vertical and Horizontal Social Stratification, Political Attitudes, and Radical Right Support: Evidence from Sweden and Europe. Stockholm University.
Syk, E. (2025). Quantifying (ine)quality: Job quality over half a century in Sweden and Europe. Stockholm University.
Palmtag, E.-L. (2023). Breaking down break-ups: Studies on the heterogeneity in (adult) children’s outcomes following a parental separation. Stockholm University.
Books
Boye, K., & Westerman, J. (red.). (2026). Välfärd och livsvillkor. Perspektiv på samtida samhällsbilder. Liber.
Book chapters
Grönlund, A., & Magnusson, C. (2024). “Workplace flexibility and the dilemmas of family-friendly choice: A new perspective on the puzzling gender inequality in Sweden”. I Making and Breaking Gender Inequalities in Work, red. Rönnmar, M., & Hayter, S. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Magnusson, C., & Tåhlin, M. (2023). “Skills, class and gender”. I A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, red. Tåhlin, M. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Westerman, J., & Syk, E. (2023). “Skills and structural change”. I A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, red. Tåhlin, M. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Reports
Last updated: 2026-11-10
Source: Swedish Institute for Social Research