Researching health in diverse neighbourhoods: critical reflection on the use of a community research model in Uppsala, Sweden

Table 1 Neighbourhood characteristics

	Uppsala	Neighbourhood 1 (Gottsunda)	Neighbourhood 2 (Sävja)
Location	67 km north of Stockholm	7 km south west of city centre	6 km south east of the city centre
Population in 2016	214 559	10 198	6519
People with a foreign background	52,649 (24%)	5568 (54.5%)	2188 (29.7%)
Total average annual earnings^a in 2015^b, thousand Swedish crowns	327.7	226	290
Unemployment rate in 2016 (16–64 years)	5.5%	8.6%	5.3%
Sick days^c in 2015	22.3	35.6	29.6

^aAverage earnings is the sum of income from employment and business. Consists of the total current taxable income from employment, entrepreneurship, pension, sickness benefit and other taxable transfers. Does not include income from capital
^bNo statistics exist for 2016
^cSick days is the Swedish Social Insurance Agency’s measure of the number of days of absence from work compensated by sickness benefit during a 12-month period

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