Labour-market status of the permanent resident population aged 15 and over (Swiss Labour Force Survey), full and part time
bfs-sake-labour-status
- Publisher
- OFS/BFS
- Access method
api- Table id
je-d-03.02.00.02.01 + je-d-03.02.01.16- Licence
- BFS terms of use OPEN-BY: "Open use. Must provide the source."
- Coverage
- Geography national · period yearly averages · from 2010 · to 2025
- Gaps
- Yearly averages only (the tables also publish quarters); both sexes together; nationality and age are separate breakdowns (the tables do not cross them). Survey results are extrapolated from a sample; small groups carry a wider error (the tables mark extrapolations from fewer than 90 observations in parentheses).
- Used on
- WORK, PROB jobs-wages.labour-force-participation
- Known limits
- Who counts: SAKE extrapolates to the permanent resident population; its foreign population is defined in the table footnote as holders of a settlement, residence or short-term permit (at least 12 months in Switzerland). Cross-check with STATPOP (bfs-statpop-age-structure), 2025: Swiss aged 15+ 5 613 700 (SAKE yearly average) against 5 603 084 and 5 634 542 (STATPOP on 31 December 2024 and 2025), within 0.3 %; foreign nationals aged 15+ 2 011 500 against 2 104 769 and 2 152 525, about 5 % fewer: STATPOP also counts persons in the asylum process with at least 12 months of residence. Employed means at least one hour of paid work in the reference week (ILO); unemployed means without work, looking for work in the last four weeks and available within two weeks, whether registered with an employment office or not (compare seco-registered-unemployment and bfs-unemployment-comparison). Checked on 2026-11-02: the derived rates equal the yearly ILO unemployment rates BFS publishes in je-d-03.03.01.03 (2025: total 4.84, Swiss 3.44, foreign 8.19 %).
- Processed file
- data/processed/bfs-sake-labour-status.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 2010–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): The yearly averages used here are complete with the fourth quarter and appear every year (2025 averages in the editions of 18.08.2026); the tables themselves are updated each quarter.
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
The state is computed each time the site is built; this page shows it as of . Results of the accuracy checks
Transformations
- je-d-03.02.00.02.01 "Arbeitsmarktstatus nach Geschlecht, Nationalität, Altersgruppen, Familientyp", sheets "Nationalität-Jahreswerte" and "Alter-Jahreswerte", first block (both sexes): population, Erwerbspersonen (labour force), Erwerbstätige (employed), Erwerbslose gemäss ILO (unemployed), Nichterwerbspersonen (not in the labour force), in 1000. Script: scripts/fetch/bfs-sake-labour-status.ts
- je-d-03.02.01.16 "Vollzeit- und Teilzeiterwerbstätige nach Geschlecht, Nationalität, Altersgruppen, Familientyp", same sheets: Vollzeit (≥ 90 %) and Teilzeit (< 90 %) employed, in 1000.
- Checks (the fetch fails otherwise, tolerance 0.01 thousand): labour force = employed + unemployed; population = labour force + not in the labour force; employed of the first table = full time + part time of the second; Swiss + foreign and the five age groups add up to the total.
- Derived by Votara: the age row 15-64 (sum of 15-24, 25-39, 40-54, 55-64); participation_rate_pct = labour force ÷ population × 100; unemployment_rate_pct = unemployed ÷ labour force × 100 (the ILO definitions), two decimals. Values in thousands with three decimals.