Unpaid work

On the occasion of the European Year of Volunteering 2011, the FSO is publishing a brochure with the latest data.

Publication (10.11.2011)

A study on regional differences in voluntary activity in Switzerland is available in French, German and Italian.

(21.03.2011)

The data for 2007 are now available. According to estimates by the Federal Statistical Office, household production accounts for approximately 45% of the total economy including household production. Since 1997, this share has fluctuated between 45 and 47%.
Indicators (08.02.2010)

• Number of hours spent on domestic work and childcare
• Main responsibility for house work
• Employment, domestic and family workload
• Extrafamilial childcare
• Voluntary work
• Household production satellite account 

• Domestic compensation

Other detailed analyses in German and in French only