The Pocket Statistics on Agriculture and Nutrition has been updated. It contains the latest data and interesting facts on the entire food supply chain and is available in four languages.
In 2018, supplementary accommodation posted a total of 16.6 million overnight stays, i.e. an increase of 4.2% compared with 2017. With 11.2 million units, Swiss visitors represented more than two-thirds of demand, i.e. a rise of 2.9%.
The FSO has revised the definition of its labour market areas. Henceforth, Switzerland has 101 labour market areas. These living and working areas have been defined based on the commuting patterns of employed persons from home to work.
A total of 1702 expulsions were issued in 2018. An expulsion was pronounced for 71% of convictions due to offences for which the legislator provides for compulsory expulsion.
What is the population composition of Swiss nationals by age and sex? Does a comparison of the structure of people living in Switzerland and those living abroad show a different picture? See our new graph of the week to find out!
With Switzerland’s new OGD strategy 2019–23, responsibility for the operational coordination of OGD implementation at Confederation level now lies in the hands of the FSO who have created an office to this effect. Key tasks will be the further development of the reference platform, opendata.swiss, where all open, freely accessible data from the Swiss authorities can easily be found, as well as advice on OGD for data publishers and users.
The FSO has adopted a new data innovation strategy. This constitutes the first response by official statistics to the challenges posed by the digital revolution.
The survey on language, religion and culture has the aim of providing statistical information on the current situation and the evolution of practices in these areas.
The Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) is a written survey, carried out every two years in enterprises in Switzerland.
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