Unemployed according to the ILO, registered unemployed and registered job seekers
bfs-unemployment-comparison
- Publisher
- OFS/BFS (with SECO data)
- Access method
api- Table id
je-d-03.03.00.01- Licence
- BFS terms of use OPEN-BY: "Open use. Must provide the source."
- Coverage
- Geography national · period yearly averages · from 2000 · to 2025
- Gaps
- Totals only (no breakdown by nationality or age in this table).
- Used on
- WORK
- Known limits
- Three counts that overlap but are not the same people (definitions in the source of each line): registered job seekers include everyone registered with an employment office, also people with a job or in a programme; registered unemployed are those available at once who have no job or only a part-time job while looking for more work; unemployed according to the ILO are residents who looked for and could take up work, registered or not. Footnote 3 of the table: the ILO series was adjusted to avoid the 2009/2010 break of the 2017 SAKE revision. Cross-checks on 2026-11-02 (also durable checks in pnpm checks:run, facts): the ILO line equals the unemployed of bfs-sake-labour-status (2025: 248 538) and the registered unemployed line equals seco-registered-unemployment (2025: 133 712) in every common year.
- Processed file
- data/processed/bfs-unemployment-comparison.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 2000–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly, in February of the next year (2025 values on 17.02.2026).
- 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
- XLSX je-d-03.03.00.01 (current edition via the DAM orderNr URL), sheet T3.3.0.1: lines "Registrierte Stellensuchende gemäss SECO, Total", "Registrierte Arbeitslose gemäss SECO, Total" and "Erwerbslose (ILO) des BFS, Total", one column per year, in 1000 (three decimals kept). Script: scripts/fetch/bfs-unemployment-comparison.ts