Switzerland - Unemployment

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

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 (2021 NUTS vintage):
  • 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 IMF writes:

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).

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

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.

Further reading

At IMF (SDDS Plus):

• Labor market: Unemployment (Mar 2017)