The Pocket Statistics Food and Agriculture provides data, facts and useful information about Switzerland’s food supply chain. Did you know, for example, that the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and Aargau produce the greatest number of plums?
In 2016, expenditure on social benefits in Switzerland was CHF 170 billion. An increase of 3.3% compared with 2015 can be attributed to the areas of old age and sickness/healthcare that account for the biggest share of expenditure.
Between 2012 and 2017, the actual weekly hours worked by full-time employees in Switzerland declined by 15 minutes on average and stood at 41 hours and 7 minutes, whereas the number of weeks of annual holiday continued its gradual increase to 5.14 weeks.
In 2017, supplementary accommodation posted a total of 15.9 million overnight stays, i.e. an increase of 6.9% compared with 2016. With 10.8 million units, Swiss visitors represented more than two-thirds of demand (68.3%), i.e. a rise of 7.0%.
Graph of the Week: Federal Act on Gambling (popular vote)
“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.
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 Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) is a written survey, carried out every two years in enterprises in Switzerland.
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