Invalidity pensioners in Switzerland by cause of disability
bsv-iv-causes
- Publisher
- BSV/OFAS/UFAS (via OFS/BFS)
- Access method
api- Endpoint
- https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/orderNr:su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-6.02.01/master
- Table id
su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-6.02.01- Licence
- Still to be confirmed with the BSV: BSV statistics distributed by the BFS; the DAM metadata states no terms of use. Figures are quoted with the source named until BSV confirms the terms.
- Coverage
- Geography Switzerland (pensioners living in Switzerland) · referenceDay December · from 2013 · to 2025
- Gaps
- Pensioners living in Switzerland only; no nationality breakdown in this table. The cause is the main cause recorded by the IV offices (one per pensioner).
- Used on
- WORK
- Known limits
- Causes are medical categories of the IV statistics, not diagnoses: "Psychische Krankheit" groups all mental illnesses. The categories describe pensions, not why a pension was granted in a given year (new pensions are a separate BSV table). The totals equal the invalidity pensions in Switzerland of bsv-iv-pensions (cross-checked on every fetch and in the accuracy checks).
- Processed file
- data/processed/bsv-iv-causes.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 2013–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly, in May of the next year (2025 data on 26.05.2026, "Stand 14.05.2026").
- 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 su-d-13.04.02-bsv-iv-6.02.01 (current edition via the DAM orderNr URL), first sheet, table T6.2.1 "Anzahl BezügerInnen": one block per sex (Männer, Frauen, Männer und Frauen), one line per year; columns located by their header text (Geburtsgebrechen; Krankheit: Psychische Krankheit, Nervensystem, Knochen und Bewegungsorgane, Andere Krankheiten, Total; Unfall; Total). Script: scripts/fetch/bsv-iv-pensions.ts (causesFetcher)
- Checks (the fetch fails otherwise): the four illness groups add up to the illness total, congenital + illness + accident = total, men + women = total.