Economics

‘Catastrophic’ Data Flaws Leave Sweden’s Riksbank Furious

The Sveriges Riksbank building in Stockholm, Sweden. — The Sveriges Riksbank building in Stockholm, Sweden.
Photographer: Mikael Sjoberg/Bloomberg

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By Nick Rigillo, Rafaela Lindeberg, and Niklas Magnusson

November 15, 2019 at 4:00 AM UTC

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Sweden’s central bank has lambasted the country’s statistics agency after it emerged that months of jobless data were riddled with errors, potentially hampering policy decisions.