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development entails and what is being done to fulfil the sustainable
development goals. This is necessary to keep engagement high on all levels
of Swedish society.
At Statistics Sweden, our aim is to create a follow-up that spans many
sectors and subject areas, with focus on synergies. We need also to highlight
challenges that cannot be solved in a particular sector alone and show where
collaboration is necessary.

2. Methodology: Our work so far and plans for next steps
The Swedish government has commissioned Statistics Sweden with
coordinating the development, production and availability of the statistical
follow-up in Sweden. As the coordinating agency, Statistics Sweden’s role is to
make sure that the communicative efforts linked to the 2030 Agenda are aimed
at contributing to the goal of a sustainable society. A central starting point is
that the statistical follow-up needs to be an integrated part of the overall
follow-up. This is illustrated in figure 1.

Figure 1. Overview of the national follow-up of the 2030 Agenda in Sweden

How do you set up the statistical follow-up of an agenda that requires such
a thoroughgoing change and spans so many areas and aspects of society? An
additional challenge for us is this: The government assignment was in many
ways unclear and purposefully vague to leave room for adapting the ambitions
to the fact that no additional funding was provided.

From the start, it was clear to us that there are many possible ways of
implementing the tasks. A very narrow interpretation of coordination could
mean only keeping track of who provides data and statistics to the global level
of the follow-up. At the other extreme of the scale, a broad interpretation could

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