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. 2024 Nov 26;40(1):34. doi: 10.1007/s10680-024-09723-5

Table 7.

The share of overqualified employees in the study population born in Sweden (%) by ancestry and gender in 2013 and 2016, using the mean-based and the mode-based methods

SW FI O.N. O.W. E.E. F.Y. S.E. M.E. IR TU OT Total
2016
Mode-based
Men 27.8 26.4 26.8 33.2 33.7 23.6 28.9 19.7 26.2 22.0 24.6 27.8
Women 26.7 26.9 26.7 31.9 32.0 24.2 27.9 23.0 28.5 22.4 25.2 26.8
Mean-based
Men 12.0 11.0 11.2 15.3 16.1 10.1 11.9 9.5 15.0 9.7 13.5 12.0
Women 11.7 11.7 11.2 14.3 15.1 11.1 13.0 11.5 15.7 10.2 13.7 11.8
2013
Mode-based
Men 28.1 25.3 27.4 34.0 34.6 24.0 28.2 21.0 25.5 19.7 25.7 28.1
Women 27.7 27.9 28.2 32.4 32.7 26.2 28.1 22.5 29.0 21.5 26.9 27.8
Mean-based
Men 12.7 11.5 11.7 16.0 16.7 11.2 12.9 10.5 13.4 9.8 13.8 12.7
Women 12.0 11.6 11.5 14.5 15.2 11.6 12.4 11.4 15.1 10.3 14.4 12.1

SW = Sweden, FI = Finland, O.N. = Other Nordic, O.W. = Other Wester, E.E. = Eastern Europe, F.Y. = Former Yugoslavia, S.E. = Southern Europe, MENA = Middle East and North Africa, IR = Iran, TU = Turkey, OT = Other Non-Western