1. 1. Inflation rate Annual percentage change Source: Statistics Sweden

2. 2. Averages for the periods 1970-1989 and 1995-2003 Source: Statistics Sweden

3. 3. Open unemployment i different counties Share of the labour force i each county respectively Source: Statistics Sweden

4. 4. Proportion of open unemployed members of different unemployment benefit funds Per cent of members Note. HTF = The Salaried Employees’ Union. SIF = The Swedish Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry. SEKO = The Union of Service and Communication Employees. The building workers’ funds consist of The Building Union’s and the Swedish Painters’ Union’s unemployment benefit funds. The industrial workers’ funds consist of the unemployment benefit funds of the Swedish Metal Workers’ Union, the Swedish Forest and Wood Trade Union, the Swedish Food Workers’ Union, the Swedish Paper Workers’ Union, the Swedish Graphic Workers’ Union and the Industrial Workers’ Union. The number of members in the unemployment benefit funds included in the chart comprised in 2003 around 88 per cent of the total number of unemployment benefit fund members in Sweden. Source: National Labour Market Board.