Research group Level of living (LNU)
Research at the Level of Living-unit includes studies of individuals' living conditions, social stratification and economic and social inequality. Here we study what living conditions in society look like today for both adults and children, and how the standard of living in society has changed over time and between generations.
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Examples of living conditions are family life, health, education, working life, financial conditions and social support. The level and distribution of these conditions, as well as changes in levels and distribution, are central study objects in living standard research. Differences in living conditions between different population groups (defined by, among other things, gender, age, family type, country of birth, place of residence, education and occupation) are important themes, both empirically and theoretically. Several of the researchers at the department analyze these issues in an international comparative perspective.
An important part of the unit's activities is to carry out the Level of Living Survey (Levnadsnivåundersökningen – LNU), which is a recurring survey in which a nationally representative sample of Sweden's adult population is interviewed or answers questionnaires about their living conditions in a number of areas. The LNU survey was first implemented in 1968 and has since then been implemented another six times with intervals of approximately 10 years, the latest round in 2020-22 . To a large extent, the same persons have been interviewed in the survey on repeated occasions. Together with the american Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID ) is LNU the world's longest still ongoing longitudinal survey.
Group members
Group managers
Carina Mood
Professor
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Members
Sandra Thiman
PhD student
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Amanda Almstedt Valldor
PhD student
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Adam Altmejd Selder
Researcher
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Linus Andersson
Researcher
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Erik Bihagen
Professor
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Anton Bjuggren Andersson
Researcher
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Katarina Boye
Senior Lecturer assistant professor
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Margarita Chudnovskaya
Researcher
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Andreas Diemer
Researcher
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Per Engzell
Researcher
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Robert Erikson
Professor emeritus
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Anni Erlandsson
Guest researcher
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Michael Grätz
Assistant professor
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Peter Fallesen
Assistant professor
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Michael Grätz
Assistant professor
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Karin Halldén
Researcher
Simon Hjalmarsson
Researcher
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Jan Jonsson
Professor
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Tünde Dóra Lénárd
PhD student
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Charlotta Magnusson
Senior Lecturer
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Carina Mood
Professor
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Eva-Lisa Katarina Palmtag
Researcher
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Stephanie Plenty
Assistant professor
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Frida Rudolphi
Researcher
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Roujman Shahbazian
Researcher
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Are Skeie Hermansen
Researcher
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Edvin Syk
PhD student
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Georg Treuter
Research assistant
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Michael Tåhlin
Professor
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Johan Westerman
Researcher
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Xiaojie Xu
PhD student