• The meaning of a bad childbirth experience

Objective Being pregnant and giving birth is a pivotal life event and one that a woman ordinarily remembers for most of her life. A negative childbirth experience can affect a woman’s health well beyond the episode of th...

• Stockholm Birth Cohort

The Stockholm Birth Cohort Study (SBC) was created in 2004/2005 by a probability matching of two anonymized longitudinal datasets; The Stockholm Metropolitan study and The Swedish Work and Mortality Database (WMD). The f...

• The database TABVERK

The database TABVERK contains population statistics in the Swedish parishes during the period 1749-1859. It constitutes the earliest population statistics throughout the world making it a unique source. Merely in Finland...

• The database POPUM

The POPUM database contains personal records from parish registers of the regions Linköping, Sundsvall and Skellefteå, Norrland’s midland and the parishes on the Swedish sides of the cultural region of Sápmi. The databas...

• Fertility and female dietary exposure to persistent organochlorine compounds

Animal studies have shown that exposure for PCBs, can effects the menstrual cycle and cause reduced fertility in females. In humans, fertility can be measured by examining the waiting time to pregnancy, ie the time betwe...

• Risks of reproductive unhealth among rubber workers - A study of waiting time to pregnancy and miscarriage

The study is based on cohorts of women who worked in the rubber industry or were married to men who worked in the rubber industry, as well as women who were members of the Food Workers' Union (controls). All of the women...

• Fertility among female hairdressers

The study investigated whether working as a hairdresser has a negative impact on fertility, measured as time to pregnancy and miscarriage risk. Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were sent to 5289 Swedish hairdres...

• Family and working life in the 21st century

The project 'Family and Working Life in Sweden' (YAPS) started in 1998. The aim of the project was to build up a longitudinal data base for studies of the mutual connection of values and demographic behaviour. The firs...

• Women in Sweden 1981 - family and working life

This investigation on Swedish women aged 20-45 years shed light on their views on family and working life. The questions are divided into nine parts: Background describe marital status, household composition, housing, an...