SWECOV is the Swedish Register-based Research Project on COVID-19. It’s official name is Ett forskningsprogram om covid-19 i Sverige: Smittspridning, bekämpning och effekter på individer och samhälle. SWECOV is a multidisciplinary research collaboration focused on using quantitative methods and comprehensive register data about the whole Swedish population to answer important questions about the consequences of the pandemic.

Read about our ongoing and finished studies below. For more information about the project, and how to apply to participate, look under the About us and Participation pages respectively.

SWECOV studies

• Ongoing

  Did more generous unemployment insurance benefits contribute to worker reallocation during the COVID-19 pandemic?

  Jan Sauermann, Olle Törnquist, and Sebastian Butschek

• Ongoing

  How does unemployment insurance protect the families of workers who lose their jobs?

  Anna Sjögren, Lisa Laun, Hanna Mühlrad, and Jan Sauermann

• Ongoing

  Mental health of COVID-19 patients and their family members

  Fang Fang, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir, Tove Fall, Mary Barker, and Shiyu Li

• Ongoing

  Did COVID-19 have lasting effects on the spatial allocation of local services?

  Oskar Nordström Skans, Adam Gill, and Lena Hensvik

• Ongoing

  Age at migration and COVID-19

  Oskar Nordström Skans, Olof Åslund, Erik Grönqvist, and Tram Pham

• Ongoing

  Inequalities in mortality going in and out of the pandmic: The contribution of age and cause of death to changes in life expectancy by education during 2015-2022.

  Olle Lundberg, Olof Östergren, Adam Altmejd, Marcus Ebeling, and Karin Modig

• Ongoing

  Medical scandals and vaccine hesitancy

  Svenja Miltner, and Jonatan Riberth

• Ongoing

  Individual and aggregate consequences of post-covid conditions

  Adam Altmejd, Torsten Persson, Olof Östergren, Anna Mia Ekström, Oskar Nordström Skans, Maxim Kan, and Nicola Orsini

• Ongoing

  Pre-Booked Appointment Letters for Increasing Vaccination Coverage in Target Populations

  Tove Fall, Georgios Varotsis, Carl Bonander, Anna Sarkadi, Helena Svaleryd, and Ulf Hammar

• Ongoing

  Symptoms reported through the Swedish Healthcare Guide 1177 for disease surveillance and hospital predictions

  Tove Fall, Jonas Björk, Ulf Hammar, Per Lundmark, and Georgios Varotsis

• Ongoing

  Understanding social inequalities in Covid-19 testing behavior

  Olof Östergren, Arizo Karimi, Emelie Counil, Jonas Björk, Tove Fall, and Karl Gauffin

• Published

  Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes among residents of Swedish long-term care facilities—a nationwide study of the year 2020

  Jenna Najar, Rasmus Broms, Marina Nistotskaya, and Carl Dahlström

• Ongoing

  Sweden's COVID-19 Recession: How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck against Firms and Workers

  Anders Akerman, Karolina Ekholm, Torsten Persson, and Oskar N. Skans