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From the data gathered for this study, as compared with the situation in some other EU Member States,
the Computing Professional (ISCO 213) community in Sweden appears, over the last few years, to have
had the following characteristics (see Section 4.6 and Annex D for detailed charts):
• a relatively encouraging (in comparison with other Member States!) fraction of women in this
employment (Figures 9 and D-1);
• a modest fraction of younger workers (Figures 10 and D-2);
• a rather changeable percentage of Self-employed professionals (Figures 11 and D-5) (although
this probably arises from the fact that the source figures here are below the threshold of statistical
reliability);
• a comparatively high share of employment within the IS Industry (i.e. IT supply companies)
(Figures 12 and D-4); and
• an apparently relatively high percentage of Computing Professionals in training (Figures 16 and
D-7).
Overall, in terms of the fraction of the national employed population working in one of the two ISCO IT
Practitioner occupations, the position in Sweden for Computing Professionals, is intriguing – both fast
recent growth since 1998 and the highest %age workforce within the EU! As far as Computer Associate
Professionals is concerned, although there was apparently a significant fall in 1998, the subsequent
growth has been remarkable, and employment in this occupation, too, represents the highest fraction of
the total national workforce of any Member State.
Detailed analyses of the Swedish Computing Professional workforce are provided in Annex D, together
with employment level scenarios relating to the four growth rates developed in Section 5.
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