Editing Ingvar Carlsson (section)

== Early life ==
Carlsson was born in [[Borås]], [[Västra Götaland County]] (then [[Älvsborg County]]), Sweden and is the third son of the warehouse worker Olof Karlsson and Ida, née Johansson.<ref name="Uddling & Paabo (1992), p. 201">{{cite book |editor1-last=Uddling |editor1-first=Hans |editor2-last=Paabo |editor2-first=Katrin |date=1992 |title=Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1993 |trans-title=Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1993 |location=Stockholm |publisher=Norstedt |isbn=91-1-914072-X |language=sv |url=https://runeberg.org/vemardet/1993/0201.html |page=201}}</ref> At the age of 12, Carlsson found his father dead on the floor of the coffee roastery where he worked.<ref name=Vi25>{{cite news|last=Wahlgren|first=Anna|title=Ingvar Carlsson: "Jag har funderat så mycket över döden"|date=25 May 2023|newspaper=[[Vi (magazine)|Vi]]|language=sv|url=https://www.vi.se/artikel/ingvar-carlsson-jag-har-funderat-sa-mycket-over-doden|accessdate=12 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Alexandersson|first=Markus|title=Långintervju med Ingvar Carlsson: "Riskabelt att det är svårare att samarbeta i dag"|date=30 October 2023|newspaper=Sydöstran|language=sv|url=https://www.sydostran.se/ledare/langintervju-med-ingvar-carlsson-riskabelt-att-det-ar-svarare-att-samarbeta-i-dag/|accessdate=8 October 2024}}</ref>

Carlsson has a diploma in business economics and a degree in political science from [[Lund University]]. In Lund he met with [[Tage Erlander]], the Swedish prime minister, and his aide [[Olof Palme]], later to become Erlander's successor. He graduated in 1952.<ref>{{harvnb|Elgán|Scrobbie|2015|p=51}}</ref> He would receive an [[Honorary degree|honorary]] doctorate from Lund University in 1989.<ref name=akademisk>{{cite news|last=Bohlin|first=Albin|title=Ex-statsminister först att få akademisk hederstitel|date=31 January 2024|newspaper=Altinget|language=sv|url=https://www.altinget.se/artikel/ex-statsminister-forst-att-faa-akademisk-hederstitel|accessdate=8 October 2024}}</ref>