Review Symposium On the 1968 Level of Living Survey in Sweden:The Level of Living Survey: a Presentation
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Review Symposium On the 1968 Level of Living Survey in SwedenThe Level of Living Survey: a Presentation SAGE Publications, Inc.1973DOI: 10.1177/000169937301600304 Sten Johansson Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm What kind of information is needed to give public discussion on low income problems and social policy an acceptable base? In December 1965 the minister of labor and housing in Sweden set up a state committee of enquiry to consider this question. The Low Income Committee, chaired by Dr Rudolf Meidner with Per Holmberg as secretary, approached the problem in a very pragmatic manner. Advised by a group of expert representatives from the LOr , the T C02 and the SAF3 they started from what was known about the structure of income on a continuous basis through official statistics based on tax returns. The purpose of their research plan was to fill out this picture by three consecutive surveys designed to successively broaden the perspective from monetary measures of welfare to measures in real terms. The first survey was made in February 1967 and was concerned with income in 1966. Among other things, it was designed to relate the structure of income to the structure of earnings with yearly