Publications using LNU data from recent years
Below is a selection of recent publications based on data from the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey (LNU).
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
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
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
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
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
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
Eyjólfsdóttir, H. S., Agahi, N., Fritzell, J. & Lennartsson, C. (2022). Physical functioning as a predictor of retirement: Has its importance changed over a thirty-year period in Sweden? European Journal of Ageing, 19, 1417–1428.
DOI: 10.1007/s10433-022-00725-y
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
Kjellsson, S. (2021). Do working conditions contribute differently to gender gaps in self-rated health within different occupational classes? Evidence from the Swedish Level of Living Survey. PLOS ONE, 16(6).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253119
Korpi, T. & Tåhlin, M. (2021). On-the-job training: A skill match approach to the determinants of lifelong learning. Industrial Relations Journal, 52(1), 64–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12317
Magnusson, C. (2021). Flexible time – but is the time owned? Family-friendly and family-unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages. Community, Work & Family, 24(3), 291–314.
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2019.1697644
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., Celeste, R. K., Lennartsson, C., McKee, K. J. & Dahlberg, L. (2022). Long-term risk factors for old-age social exclusion in Sweden: A 30-year longitudinal study. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 103.
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2022.104760
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
Palmtag, E.-L. (2022). Like ripples on a pond: The long-term consequences of parental separation and conflicts in childhood on adult children’s self-rated health. SSM – Population Health, 18.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101100
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
Sindi, S., Kiasat, S., Kåreholt, I. & Nilsen, C. (2022). Psychosocial working conditions and cognitive and physical impairment in older age. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 104.
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2022.104802
Syk, E. (2022). Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 82.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100745
Valldor, A. 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
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
Westerman, J. (2021). Should I learn or should I turn? Implications of job mobility for subsequent learning at work. European Sociological Review, 37(6), 935–951.
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcab018
Witteveen, D. & Westerman, J. (2022). Structural change shapes career mobility opportunities: An analysis of cohorts, gender and parental class. Work, Employment and Society, 37(1), 97–116.
DOI: 10.1177/09500170211044305
Last updated: 2026-08-11
Source: Swedish Institute for Social Research