Swiss labor force survey
The Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS) - carried out by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) in cooperation with an external service provider - is a household survey that has been carried out since 1991. The main objective is to record the employment structure and employment behavior of the permanent resident population. Due to the strict application of international definitions in the SLFS, the Swiss data can be compared with those of the other countries of the OECD and the countries of the European Union . The SAKE has been carried out quarterly since 2010. The interviews in the third and fourth quarters of 2009 serve as a transition from the old to the new (continuous) SLFS.
Legal basis
Ordinance of 30 June 1993 on the implementation of federal statistical surveys (Statistic Survey Ordinance ), SR 431.012.1
Type of survey
The SLFS is a sample survey . The survey is carried out as a telephone household survey with a sample of around 105,000 people (up to 2001: around 16,000, from 2002 to 2009: around 35,000 people). The households are drawn randomly from the telephone directory. Since 2003, the SLFS sample has also been supplemented by foreign persons from the permanent resident population, who are drawn from the Central Migration Information System (ZEMIS). Up to 2009 this supplementary part was 15,000, since 2010 it has been 21,000. The participants will be interviewed four times over a period of one and a half years.
Acquisition characteristics
The SLFS is a survey of the permanent resident population aged 15 and over at the level of Switzerland and major regions. Employment (current or previous), reasons for inactivity (retirement, training, etc.), learned and practiced occupation, place of work and volume of work, working conditions (working time regulation, night work, weekend work), business sector, income and household income, job search (unemployment, Underemployment), occupational and spatial mobility, training and further education, unpaid work (family and housework, voluntary work, support for relatives, etc.), migration and social security.
execution
The first survey took place in 1991. Until 2008 the survey took place in the second, in 2009 in the second, third and fourth quarters. It has been ongoing since 2010. Up to 2009 the data were analyzed annually, since 2010 they have been evaluated quarterly.