Enquiries, Sources – Cross-border Commuters Statistics (CCS)Overview
| Short description | Cross-border commuters Statistics are released quarterly. They provide information about the total number of foreign nationals living across the border and working on Swiss soil as well as important details regarding these workers. Since the CCS was created in 2004, totals were calculated retrospectively back to 1995. |
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| Responsible agency | Swiss Federal Statistical Office |
| Responsible service | Labour Force |
| Responsible person and information | Martial Berset, 032 713 64 02, martial.berset@bfs.admin.ch |
| Conducted by | Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) |
| Legal basis | Art. 10 of Swiss Federal Law of 9 October 1992 on public statistics |
| Type of enquiry | Summary statistics. Cross-border commuters Statistics are based on data from Job Statistics (JOBSTAT), the Business Census (BC) and the Central Information Service on Migration (CISM). The estimated total number of cross-border commuters is obtained through extrapolation of JOBSTAT data. The proportional breakdowns used in the CCS are identical to those in the CISM. |
| Statistical basis and units of enquiry | All cross-border commuters, i.e. foreign nationals holding a G permit (work permit issued specifically to cross-border commuters) and working on Swiss soil. The total number of cross-border commuters indicated by CCS is lower than the number of active G permits listed in the CISM. This is due to the fact that Swiss authorities are not always notified when a person ceases to work in Switzerland. |
| Features registered | Cross-border commuters
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| Degree of regionalisation | Switzerland, main regions and cantons |
| Date survey conducted | Last working day of each quarter |
| Periodicity | Quarterly |
| Available since | 1995 |
| Statistical quality of data | Cross-border commuters Statistics are mainly based on data from JOBSTAT, which is a sampling survey. The estimated total number of cross-border workers is subject to a variation coefficient of about 1%. Since the proportional breakdowns used in the CCS match the breakdowns of active permits in the CISM (exhaustive register), the data appearing in tables are not rounded off. |
| Revision | 2007/2010 |
| Last Update | 02.03.2011 |
Last updated: 23.10.2009