Last updated
October 4, 2023
Terms of use
Open use. Must provide the source. Use for commercial purposes requires permission of the data owner.

Description

This dataset contains annual data on social security benefit expenditure and receipts in Switzerland since 1990. The last year of the time series is estimated (early estimate). All financial values are broken down by social security regime. A regime corresponds in principle to a specific set of rules aimed at the provision of social benefits and their financing Social benefit expenditures are classified by function. The functions correspond to the categories of needs and risks that social benefits are intended to cover: sickness/health care, disability, old age, survivors, family/children, unemployment, housing, social exclusion n.a.g. Receipts are classified by type, such as employer's social contributions, contributions from protected persons excluding health insurance premiums, health insurance premiums, federal, cantonal and municipal government contributions, investment income and other revenues. Descriptions of the variables in the CSV file are available in the Appendix.

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Additional information

Identifier
27846470@bundesamt-fur-statistik-bfs
Issued date
October 4, 2023
Modified date
-
Publisher
BFS/OFS
Contact points
info@bfs.admin.ch
Languages
  • English
  • German
  • French
  • Italian
Further information
Legal basis
Landing page
https://www.bfs.admin.ch/asset/de/ts-x-13.02.02.02
Documentation
Temporal coverage
January 1, 1990 - December 31, 2022
Spatial coverage
Schweiz
Update interval
Annual
Metadata Access
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