Enquiries, Sources – Swiss Wage Index (SWI)Overview
| Short description | The Laspeyres price index measures wage trends that only reflect the cost of labour. Changes in the composition of the workforce (such as persons moving from one job to another as a result of promotion or persons leaving or joining an enterprise) cannot affect the path of the index. The structure of employees is fixed at a chosen base year. The index measures how earnings in the latest year compare with those for the last base year when the index value was 100. |
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| Responsible agency | Swiss Federal Statistical Office |
| Responsible service | Wages and Working Conditions |
| Responsible person and information | Information LOHN, 032 713 64 29, lohn@bfs.admin.ch |
| Conducted by | Federal Statistical Office (FSO) |
| Legal basis | Ordinance of 30 June 1993 |
| Type of enquiry | Processing of administrative data from approx. 260,000 accident statements |
| Statistical basis and units of enquiry | Employees from the secondary and tertiary sectors according to the "interior concept". |
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| Degree of regionalisation | Switzerland |
| Date survey conducted | Calendar year |
| Periodicity | Annual statistic |
| Available since | 1942 (base 1939=100) |
| Revision | The next revision of the Swiss wage index should take place in 2016 (base 2015=100). The weighting scheme will then be updated. |
| Last Update | 18.04.2012 |
Last updated: 06.05.2010