Swiss Federal Statistics Geodata

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The wide array of basic geodata now available is built upon the ETH Zurich's geographic planning database, acquired by the FSO in 1986. Today it covers all statistical topics for which register analyses and statistical surveys have been conducted with sufficient coverage and number of samples.

Available data

• Generalised communal boundaries
• Boundaries of urban quarters of large Swiss cities
  
• New population census from 2010 onwards:
  
  • Population and housholds: Population statistics (STATPOP)
    
  • Buildings and dwellings: Buildings and dwellings statistics (BDS) 
    
  • Population census
• Federal censuses 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000, detailed attributes on persons, households, buildings and dwellings of entire Switzerland
  
  
• Structural business statistics (STATENT) from 2011
  
• Business censuses: Basic characteristics on number of establishments and jobs, including full and part-time jobs by economic sector
  
  • Federal business census 2008
  • Federal business censuses (economic sectors 2 and 3) 1995, 1998, 2001, 2005
  • Federal business censuses (economic sector 1) 1996, 2000, 2005
• Land use statistics 1979/85, 1992/97, 2004/09 and 2013/18 according to nomenclature 2004:
  • Standard nomenclature NOAS04: 72 basic categories, aggregations of 27 and 17 classes and 4 principle domains
  • Land cover nomenclatue NOLC04: 27 basic categories and 6 principal domains
  • Land use nomenclature NOLU04: 46 basic categories, 10 classes and 4 principal domains
• Land use statistics 1972 (according to 12 types of use)
• Simplified land use
• Soil suitability
• Forest composition
  
• Terrain data interpolated based on the digital terrain model RIMINI