JADB: Interactive Timelines

Disclaimer

The data is produced for a pilot project researching the economic history the labour market in Sweden, and is highly preliminary.

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Visualization

Panel 1: Job Ad Hits & Employment

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Panel 2: Digitized Pages & Page Count

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Panel 3: Circulation & Price

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Data Notes

• 1906 is marked on all charts - digitization drops sharply after this year
• Gaps in data are shown as breaks in the lines (not interpolated)
• HISCO job ads cover 1850-2000
• DN metadata (circulation, price, page count) covers 1864-2025
• Arbetsförmedlingen covers 1906-1966
• All panels share the same time axis for easy comparison

About the Data

This visualization combines four historical data sources:

1. HISCO Job Advertisements - Job titles from HISCO queried against Dagens Nyheter
2. Dagens Nyheter Metadata - Newspaper metrics from Swedish National Library archives
3. Employment Statistics - Stockholm employment data from Swedish statistical yearbooks
4. SCB Population Data - Historical population statistics for Stockholm city and county

All data is preliminary and part of a pilot research project on Swedish economic history.

Data Sources & Citations

HISCO Job Advertisement Data

Original Sources:

• Kungliga biblioteket (Royal Swedish Library). Svenska tidningar. Available at: https://tidningar.kb.se/ (Accessed: 2025-10-15)
• SwedPop. (2022). HISCO Codes and Description. Available at: https://swedpop.se/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/HISCO-codes-and-description-for-IDS-v2.pdf (Accessed: 2025-10-15)
• Swedish Occupational Titles from CEDAR, Edvinsson, Sören and Westberg, Annika (2024). Available at: https://datasets.iisg.amsterdam/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=hdl:10622/KNGX6B (Accessed: 2024-07-28)

Data Repository: https://github.com/JobAdsData/HISCO_trend_notebook

Dagens Nyheter Metadata

Original Source:

• Nya Lundstedt Dagstidningar. (2025). Svenska Dagstidningar 1900--2025. Available at: https://tidning.kb.se/nld/nld/tidning_all?tidnId=4 (Accessed: 2025-10-14)

Data Repository: https://github.com/JobAdsData/nyalundstedt_DN

Employment Statistics

Original Source:

• Stockholms stads statistiska kontor. (1924-1961). Statistisk årsbok för Stockholms stad. Stockholm: Stockholms stads statistiska kontor.

Data Repository: https://github.com/JobAdsData/arbetsformedlingen-sthlm

SCB Population Data

Original Source:

• Statistiska centralbyrån. (1969). Historisk statistik för Sverige: Del 1, Befolkning (Andra upplagan). Stockholm: Statistiska centralbyrån. Available at: https://share.scb.se/OV9993/Data/Historisk statistik/Historisk statistik för Sverige 1700-1900-tal/Del1-Befolkning-1720-1967.pdf (Accessed: 2025-10-15)

Data Repository: https://github.com/JobAdsData/scb-befolkning-sthlm