In 2018, the offering of Switzerland’s 10 largest libraries included over 55 million books, magazines and other physical documents. This was 2% less than in 2017. At around 4.6 million, the number of loans in these libraries also showed a slight decrease.
Long-term trends in Swiss cinema show a clear increase in the number of cinema complexes: they are increasingly replacing single screen cinemas. An increase in film offerings has also been recorded even if many of these are only selectively shown.
In 2017, there were almost 5.2 million jobs in Switzerland, an increase of 1.2% compared with the previous year. It was mainly large companies that observed the greatest increase in staff numbers.
In 2017, 21% of economically active persons were very often stressed at work compared with 18% in 2012. Almost half (49%) of persons who were stressed said that they were emotionally exhausted at work and were at greater risk of a burnout.
What is the at-risk-of-poverty rate among employed persons in Switzerland? How high or how low is this rate in European comparison? 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 is a written survey, carried out every two years in enterprises in Switzerland.
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