Registered unemployed and registered unemployment rate by sex, nationality and age (SECO)
seco-registered-unemployment
- Publisher
- SECO (via OFS/BFS)
- Access method
api- Table id
je-d-03.03.02.01 + je-d-03.03.02.02- Licence
- BFS terms of use OPEN-BY: "Open use. Must provide the source."
- Coverage
- Geography national · period yearly averages of the monthly counts · from 1991 · to 2025
- Gaps
- Yearly averages only (SECO publishes monthly figures on amstat.ch, which has no public API). Sex and nationality are crossed; age is a separate breakdown; the duration breakdown has counts only.
- Used on
- WORK, PROB jobs-wages.unemployment
- Known limits
- Registered unemployed: persons registered with a regional employment office (RAV/ORP) who are available for placement at once and have no job, or only a part-time job while looking for more work (partially unemployed, see je-d-03.03.02.06), whether or not they receive unemployment benefits. The rate divides them by the labour force of a census or of a three-year pooling of the structural survey (footnote of je-d-03.03.02.02; 2023–2025: SE 2021–2023), so the base changes in steps. It is not the ILO unemployment rate of the labour force survey: cross-check with bfs-unemployment-comparison, 2025: 133 712 registered unemployed (SECO, same value in both tables) against 248 538 unemployed according to the ILO (BFS), and rates of 2.8 % against 4.8 %. The ILO count includes people who look for work without registering (for example students, or people who are not entitled to benefits), while the partially unemployed have a job and are therefore employed in the ILO sense. The two measures move together over time but must not be mixed. In March 2018 the employment offices introduced a new recording system (footnote of the tables).
- Processed file
- data/processed/seco-registered-unemployment.csv
How current is this data?
- Freshness
- Up to date
According to its update rhythm, no newer edition is expected yet.
- Period covered
- 1991–2025
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Yearly
Ledger note (in English): Yearly averages in January–February of the next year (2025 averages in the editions of 04.02.2026).
- Votara checks the source
- Every week, and every day from 3 days before to 14 days after an announced publication date
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Transformations
- XLSX je-d-03.03.02.01 (counts) and je-d-03.03.02.02 (rates, in %), current editions via the DAM orderNr URL: one line per group, one column per year. Lines without values (headings, footnotes) are skipped; an unknown line with values fails the fetch. Script: scripts/fetch/seco-registered-unemployment.ts
- Groups: Total, Männer, Frauen, Schweizer, Ausländer, Schweizerinnen, Ausländerinnen, Schweizer/innen, Ausländer/innen, 15-24, 25-39, 40-54, 55+ Jahre, and the durations 1–6 months, 7–12 months, over a year. Counts rounded to whole persons (SECO publishes rounded averages), rates kept with up to three decimals. Check: Swiss + foreign and men + women equal the total within two persons.