Mnemonic | ESEC.ICHE | |
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Unit | Ths. #, NSA | |
Adjustments | Not Seasonally Adjusted | |
Quarterly | 0.53 % | |
Data | 2023 Q4 | 1,075 |
2023 Q3 | 1,070 |
Source | Swiss Federal Statistics Office (SFSO) |
Release | Employment (DE - ETS, EN - ES) - Detailed by industry |
Frequency | Quarterly |
Start Date | 6/30/1991 |
End Date | 12/31/2023 |
Reference | Last | Previous | Units | Frequency | |
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Unemployment | Mar 2024 | 108,593 | 111,879 | #, NSA | Monthly |
Unemployment Rate | Mar 2024 | 2.4 | 2.4 | %, NSA | Monthly |
Primary Industries Employment | 2023 Q4 | 129.96 | 138.11 | Ths. #, NSA | Quarterly |
Secondary Industries Employment | 2023 Q4 | 1,075 | 1,070 | Ths. #, NSA | Quarterly |
Real Wages & Salaries | 2022 | 105.6 | 107.6 | 2010 = 100, NSA | Annual |
Agriculture Employment | 2017 | 173,023 | 164,400 | # | Annual |
Labor Force | 2016 | 4,889,215 | 4,814,298 | # | Annual |
Labor Force Employment | 2016 Q4 | 5,080 | 5,051 | Ths. | Quarterly |
Total Employment | 2016 Q4 | 5,080 | 5,051 | Ths. | Quarterly |
For Switzerland, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) has conducted the Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) annually since 1991 (during Q2) with the goal of obtaining data about working life and the labour market in general. It also provides insight into living conditions of unemployed, retired, housewives and house husbands as well as students.
The SLFS addresses professional activity (present or past), reasons why people are economically inactive (retirement, training /education, etc.), profession learnt and profession exercised, working conditions: hours worked, night work, weekend work, professional revenue, household revenue, job hunting and professional and geographical mobility.
The FSO Employment Survey (ES) is complementary.
Active:
Predecessors:
From 2010, the SLFS has taken place quarterly in order to produce quarterly indicators. Survey participants are interviewed four times over a period of one and a half years. An interviewer from the commissioned institute contacts the households by phone and conducts an initial interview taking approximately 20 minutes. The three subsequent interviews take about 10 minutes each. The SFSO selects addresses to interview by randomly selecting private telephone numbers, including numbers not available to the general public. Since 2003, the sample has also included a sample of foreigners drawn from the Central Information Service on Migration (CISM).
The SLFS was conducted using a sample of approximately 50,000 persons during the second quarter of 2009. Since then, approximately 126,000 interviews are conducted each year. The addresses used in the SLFS are selected from private telephone numbers.
The source defines "employed persons" as all persons aged 15 and over who, during the reference week:
Unemployed persons - people between the ages of 15 and 74 who were available for work but were not employed during the reference week or were actively looking for works during the previous month.
This definition of unemployment differs from that of SECO (Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs). As such, unemployment totals for the SLFS and SECO do not match.
The IESS framework ("Integration of European Social Statistics" a.k.a. "Framework Regulation for the production of European statistics on persons and households") was implemented during 2021Q1 with the change from 2020Q2. Despite the change in definitions, data ultimately proved to be comparable across the boundary.
Since 2012, for employment by industry, we have constructed seasonally adjusted counterparts.
There is a break in method from 2010Q1.
IESS was implemented from 2020Q2 but data are comparable across the boundary, i.e., there is no visible break.
At the source:
At IMF (SDDS):