In 2017, 8.0% of salaried employees in Switzerland had a fixed-term contract compared with 6.7% in 2010. Almost a quarter of salaried employees aged between 15 and 24 years had an employment contract of this type, with internships (40.9%) accounting for a large share of this amount.
While the majority of people affected by poverty regained an income above the poverty threshold after one year, around 1% of the population remained poor in the long term.
In 2017, the number of bankruptcy proceedings opened by businesses and persons was at its highest since 2008, whereas the total financial losses resulting from liquidation proceedings reached their lowest level since 1994.
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85% of holders of a federal proficiency certificate obtain their first job within 3 months of completing their qualification and 46% remain in the company that trained them. However, 19% are registered as unemployed at some point during the two and a half years following their qualification.
Over three quarters of a million Swiss citizens live abroad. You can see where they are exactly in our graph of the week. To see the graph, simply click on the world map opposite!
“The FSO focuses on the sustainable production of statistical information that can be used for temporal and spatial comparison to successfully fulfil its mission, also in the future”
From a comprehensive census conducted every 10 years, the federal population census became an annual event in 2010. An evaluation of this new census system has been carried out.
In 2017, the number of offences known to and recorded by the police decreased in most areas of the police crime statistics. Overall, the number of offences has continuously declined since 2012.
Did you know that there are around 46 000 known species of flora, fauna and fungi in Switzerland? Find out more and discover other fascinating facts in the new Statistical Data on Switzerland 2018.
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 structural survey is a component of the Population Census and complements information obtained from registers with additional statistics on the structure of the population. In this survey, part of the population fill in a written questionnaire.
The Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) is a written survey, carried out every two years in enterprises in Switzerland.
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