Governance and results

Our activities are governed by ordinances and appropriation directions. Here you can read more about how our assignment is governed and how our work is monitored, however most of the documents are in Swedish.

Annual report

Each year we submit an annual report to the Government. The annual report is decided on by the board of directors and describes our programmes and expenses, as well as the results achieved.

Brief version of Annual report 2021 Pdf, 2 MB.

Other documents

We work on behalf of the Riksdag and the Government. The fundamental features are described in acts and ordinances. The most important acts and ordinances for our work are the Ordinance on Labour Market Policy, the Ordinance with Instructions for Arbetsförmedlingen and the Government Agencies Ordinance.

Ordinance on Labour Market Policy (2000:628) (riksdagen.se) (in Swedish)

Ordinance with Instructions for Arbetsförmedlingen (2007:1030) (riksdagen.se) (in Swedish)

Ordinance on Changes in Instructions for Arbetsförmedlingen (2020:94) (svenskforfattningssamling.se) (in Swedish)

Government Agencies Ordinance (2007:515) (riksdagen.se) (in Swedish)

You can read more about how government agencies are governed at the Government Offices of Sweden website.

Government agencies and state-owned enterprises (regeringen.se) (in Swedish)

The Government gives us assignments both continually throughout the year and via its annual appropriation directions. Appropriation directions are the decisions issued by the Government each budget year in order to regulate the activities of a government agency.

Appropriation directions for Arbetsförmedlingen 2024 (esv.se) (in Swedish)

Appropriation directions for Arbetsförmedlingen 2023 (esv.se) (in Swedish)

See the progress report requirements expressed in the respective appropriation directions.

Progress report on appropriation directions 2024 (in Swedish)

Progress report on appropriation directions 2023 (in Swedish)

We regularly report financial forecasts and outcomes to the Government in accordance with the current appropriation directions.

Financial forecasts and outcomes (in Swedish)

Arbetsförmedlingen is funded by appropriations from the Riksdag and the Government. Each year we submit budget documentation to the Government. The documentation reflects our ambition for how our activities should be funded over the coming three years and contains proposals concerning regulatory changes and simplifications.

Arbetsförmedlingen’s budget proposal 2024-2026 (in Swedish) Pdf, 585 kB.

Arbetsförmedlingen’s budget proposal 2023-2025 (in Swedish) Pdf, 489 kB.

Arbetsförmedlingen’s budget proposal 2022-2024 (in Swedish) Pdf, 461 kB.

Sustainability reports

Arbetsförmedlingen is in the process of modernizing its sustainability reporting, and therefore the latest report is from 2021

Sustainability report 2021 (in Swedish) Pdf, 632 kB.

Environmental management reports

Environmental management annual report 2022 (in Swedish)

Environmental management annual report 2021 (in Swedish)

Our code of statutes contains current regulations and general guidelines. The code also includes applicable regulations and general guidelines from the former Arbetsmarknadsstyrelsen, the activities of which were transferred to Arbetsförmedlingen on 1 January 2008.

Code of statutes (in Swedish)

At the beginning of each year we publish an annual register of the regulations and general guidelines we have issued over the past year.

Annual register of statutes issued in 2023 (in Swedish) Pdf, 117 kB.

We send out consultation referrals, i.e. proposals, that other organisations and government agencies can submit opinions about. We also respond to consultation referrals from other government agencies

Consultation referrals (in Swedish)

Statistics and analyses

Statistics for jobseekers, vacancies, labour market policy programmes, redundancies. Also analyses, reports, and labour market forecasts.

Statistics and analyses (in Swedish)