Switzerland - Unemployment Rate

Switzerland: Unemployment Rate

Mnemonic	LBR.ICHE
Unit	%, NSA
Adjustments	Not Seasonally Adjusted
	Monthly
Data	Feb 2023	2.1
	Jan 2023	2.2

Series Information

Source	State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) - Switzerland
Release	Unemployment (subnational, M)
Frequency	Monthly
Start Date	1/31/1976
End Date	2/28/2023

Switzerland: Labor

	Reference	Last	Previous	Units	Frequency
Unemployment	Feb 2023	98,452	100,776	#, NSA	Monthly
Unemployment Rate	Feb 2023	2.1	2.2	%, NSA	Monthly
Primary Industries Employment	2022 Q3	130.46	113.04	Ths. #, NSA	Quarterly
Secondary Industries Employment	2022 Q3	1,043	1,038	Ths. #, NSA	Quarterly
Real Wages & Salaries	2021	107.6	108.43	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

Release Information

Description

For Switzerland, unemployment count and rate (for canton (NUTS 3) areas), with additional detail (age, NACE industry) for the country.

Properties

Active:

Classification: NOGA 2008, the local version of NACE Rev. 2
Measurements:
- Unitary count (#)
- Percent (%)
Adjustments:
- Seasonally adjusted (SA)
- Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
Native frequency: Monthly
Start dates:
- As early as 1976m1
- Uniformly 1983m1 for cantons
Geo coverage:
- Country
- Canton/NUTS 3 (all 26 ICHE_^^^)
Concept-geo pairs:
- 2 concepts for NUTS 2 areas
- 100 concepts for country

Predecessor:

NOGA 2002 - 2004m1 to 2009m5 ("_N02")

The definition of unemployed includes all persons registered with a regional placement office who are without work and immediately available for employment (as a rule, within 30 days) and who are looking for work. All job seekers between the ages of 15 and 65 are taken into account. No category of foreigner is excluded.

Scope

Industrial coverage: All industries are covered.
Occupational coverage: All occupations are covered.
Geographical coverage: The whole country is covered.
Population coverage: All job seekers (registered unemployed and not unemployed) between the ages of 15 and 65. No segment of the population is excluded.
- The statistics include unemployed persons as well as persons who are not unemployed but have registered with a regional placement office and are looking for a new job, according to the following definitions:
- Registered unemployed persons: all registered job-seekers who are without work and immediately (as a rule within 30 days) available for employment.
- Registered persons who are not unemployed: all registered job seekers who are either not immediately available for work or who already have a job. The following distinctions are made in this context:
  1. persons in programmes of temporary employment
  2. persons in retraining or further training programmes
  3. persons with an interim source of income
  4. others seeking work who are not unemployed.
Topical coverage: For registered unemployed, the data is broken down as follows:
- By region (part of the country, canton and local authority); by sex; by nationality (Swiss, foreign); by age group (15-19, 20-24, ..., 55-59, over 60); by employment status (fully or partially unemployed); by length of unemployment (1-6 months, 7-12 months, > 1 year); by employment situation (previously gainfully employed, first-time job seeker, re-entering the labor market, retraining/further education).
- For registered job seekers, the data is broken down as follows: by region (canton), and employment situation (by persons in temporary employment programs; by persons in retraining/further education; by persons with interim earnings; and, by other not unemployed job seekers).

Revisions

No. The data are final when first released and are not subject to revision.

Notes

Geo structure

Ticino and Zurich are conterminous at the NUTS 2 and 3 levels, i.e., ICHE_TICI=ICHE_TIC and ICHE_ZURC=ICHE_ZUR. The other five NUTS 2 areas are not banked.