It was the same level as in August and July.
"Even in September, unemployment remained at a higher level. At the same time as temporary employments increased, permanent employments decreased, seasonally adjusted and smoothed", says Åsa Zakrisson, statistician at the Labor Force Surveys at SCB, in a comment.
The employment rate was 68.9 percent, also the same level as in August and July.
The Employment Service's statistics from Wednesday showed a declining unemployment for the second month in a row.
In total, 364,000 people, corresponding to 6.9 percent of the labor force, were registered as unemployed with the country's employment agencies.
The Employment Service and SCB report unemployment in Sweden every month. But the statistics differ, often quite significantly, as an effect of the authorities measuring in different ways.
For example, youth unemployment at the Employment Service is 8 percent, but almost 30 percent in SCB's figures.
The Employment Service uses actually registered with the agencies. And has also a narrower age range. The total unemployment is measured in the age range 16-65 years. Youth unemployment refers to young people between 18 and 24 years.
Statistics Sweden (SCB) uses a sample survey. The age range is 15-74 years for total unemployment and 15-24 years for youth unemployment.
As a young unemployed, a large proportion of full-time students are also counted in SCB's way of measuring (which is based on international criteria). It is often enough that as a full-time student you want a part-time job, or that you are waiting for a summer job that will start later, to be counted as unemployed.
Source: Employment Service, SCB