Swedish opposition to the European single currency has strengthened since voters in the Scandinavian country rejected the euro in a referendum two months ago, a poll published on Friday showed.

Fifty-nine percent of Swedes would vote "no" to the euro if given the chance again, 38 percent would vote "yes" and the remainder were undecided, the Temo poll in leading daily Dagens Nyheter indicated.

On September 14, in the first vote in the country on the euro since the single currency went into circulation in 12 of the EU's 15 member states in January 2002, 56 percent of Swedes said they did not want to adopt the euro and 42 percent said they did.

That was a much wider spread than what opinion polls had predicted in the run-up to the vote.

The "no" vote was seen as a reflection of deep-rooted opposition to moving power further away from the people to the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, which Swedes feared would not take the needs of their small country into account when shaping monetary policy.

Arne Modig, chief analyst at the Temo polling institute, said the opposition registered in Friday's poll was a record high for his institute.

"This is a historically high 'no' figure. We have never recorded such strong opposition. The referendum result on September 14 was not an isolated incident," he told Dagens Nyheter.

Opposition has increased among all voting groups, but primarily among those aged 45 to 59, figures showed.

The Swedish currency, the krona, fell briefly in the first days following the referendum but has since risen steadily to levels not seen in three years against the euro and in five years against the dollar.

The Temo poll, which questioned 1,001 Swedes during the period November 6-12, also showed that Swedish support for the European Union was stable.

Forty-five percent said membership in the bloc was good for Sweden, 39 percent said it was bad and 16 percent were undecided. In June, the figures were 45-37.