Classifications, Inventories – Socio-Professional Categories 2010 (SPC 2010)Overview
| Brief description | The socio-professional categories (SPC) are a classification system to represent the social structure of the population. For employed persons (excluding apprentices), the SPC are based on several basic variables (mainly on the current job, occupational status and highest completed education). For other persons, a distinction is only made between apprentices, unemployed persons and economically inactive persons. |
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| Office responsible | Federal Statistical Office (FSO) |
| Unit responsible | Labour Force Section (AES) |
| Information | Urs Meier; Tel.: 032 713 62 69; Email: urs.meier@bfs.admin.ch |
| Legal basis | Federal Statistics Act of 9 October 1992 (SR 431.01) |
| Structure | Hierarchical structure: two digit (1st level) and three digit (2nd level). |
| Available languages | German, French and Italian versions |
| Principal uses in FSO | Structural survey of the Federal Census |
| Swiss Labour Force Survey (SLFS) | |
| Previous versions | SPC 2000 (valid from Jan 2002 to March 2011) SPC 1990 (valid from Jan 1993 to Dec 2011) |
| Last description update | 17.08.2011 |
Last updated: 17.08.2011