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The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) are the Confederation's service and competence centre for lasting information management. They appraise, secure, describe and provide access to archive-worthy records of the Swiss Confederation.

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  • State financial statements / federal budget: receipts and expenditure of the Confederation for the previous and following year (1848–2014)

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector, Economy and finance

    In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure.

    The Federal...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

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    • budget
    • confederation
    • expenditure
    • federal-finance-administration
    • federal-finances
    • financial-planning
    • glam
    • openglam
    • receipts
    • state-financial-statements
    • statement-of-financial-performance
    • statement-of-financial-position
    • supplement
    • supplementary-credit
    • swiss-confederation

  • Official Compilation of Federal Legislation (BS / AS) 1948-2018

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Justice, legal system and public safety

    The data comprise the Official Compilation (AS) including the Revised Compilation (BS). The AS is the organ of publication for enactments of the Confederation that have entered...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

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    • glam
    • openglam

  • Federal consultations 1960-1991

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Justice, legal system and public safety

    Metadata on consultation procedures completed between 1960 and 1991. The list links to the overview of consultation procedures completed since 1992, which is maintained online by...

    Last updated: October 23, 2014

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    • PDF
    • XLS
    • associations
    • bill
    • business-organisations
    • cantonal-governments
    • cantons
    • consultation
    • consultation-procedure
    • decision-of-the-federal-council
    • federal-act
    • federal-decree
    • federal-departments
    • federalism
    • glam
    • hearing
    • hearing-procedure
    • interest-groups
    • legal-ordinance
    • legislation
    • legislative-process
    • openglam
    • organisations
    • parliament
    • parliamentary-committees
    • partial-revision-of-the-federal-constitution
    • political-parties
    • survey
    • trade-associations

  • Results of the opendata.admin.ch survey

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector

    Between 22 February and 17 March 2014, users were asked for their views on the opendata.admin.ch pilot portal. The results are now available to download.

    The file “Resultate...

    Last updated: January 9, 2013

    • ODS
    • CSV
    • survey

  • The Stapfer-Enquête: schooling in Switzerland 1799

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport

    Database containing the results of the Stapfer-Enquête: The Stapfer-Enquête is a unique survey of the school situation in the Helvetic Republic dating from 1799. It was initiated...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

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    • SPARQL
    • RDF XML
    • glam
    • helvetic-period
    • helvetic-republic
    • history
    • lindas
    • openglam
    • philipp-albert-stapfer
    • schools
    • survey
    • teaching

  • The Stapfer-Enquête: schooling in Switzerland 1799 (RDF)

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport

    Database containing the results of the Stapfer-Enquête: The Stapfer-Enquête is a unique survey of the school situation in the Helvetic Republic dating from 1799. It was initiated...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

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    • HTML
    • history
    • glam
    • helvetic-period
    • helvetic-republic
    • lindas
    • openglam
    • philipp-albert-stapfer
    • schools
    • survey
    • teaching

  • Data inventory of the Federal Administration Data

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector

    The Federal Council’s Open Government Data Strategy for Switzerland 2014–2018 aims to facilitate access to official data. One of the measures in the strategy is the creation of an...

    Last updated: December 19, 2017

    • XLS
    • CSV
    • confederation
    • data
    • data-catalogue
    • data-inventory
    • inventory
    • ogd
    • open-data
    • strategey

  • Fonds overview: Federal State since 1848

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector

    The fonds overview of the Swiss Federal Archives’ database guides users within the holdings of the Federal State since 1848 (main department E). It offers an easy starting point...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

    • XML
    • authorities
    • communication
    • culture
    • economy
    • education
    • energy
    • environment
    • finances
    • foreign-policy
    • glam
    • health
    • justice
    • national-defence
    • openglam
    • people
    • police
    • science
    • social-security
    • state
    • transport
    • work

  • Historical photograph collection “Active service in the First World War”

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Education, culture and sport, Government and public sector

    The “Active service in the First World War” (1914-1918) photograph collection comprises 5,125 digitised glass plate negatives and their metadata from the fonds “National Defence...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

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    • ODS
    • PDF
    • active-service
    • air-force
    • first-world-war
    • glam
    • manoeuvres
    • national-defence
    • officers
    • openglam
    • photographs
    • soldiers
    • swiss-army
    • swiss-history
    • troops
    • war
    • weapons

  • Archive database of the Swiss Federal Archives

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector

    Metadata of the holdings in the Swiss Federal Archives. The dump contains metadata on 3.84 million dossiers and 257,000 documents that were accessible online in August 2020. This...

    Last updated: February 18, 2026

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    • XLS
    • active-service
    • agricultural-research-institutes
    • agriculture
    • archives
    • armament
    • armed-forces
    • armed-forces-material
    • armed-forces-staff
    • art
    • authorities
    • banks
    • border-guard
    • censorship
    • civil-aviation
    • civil-defence
    • civil-status
    • coinage
    • commerce
    • commercial-register-and-property-law-register
    • communications
    • consulates
    • council-of-states
    • credit-institutions
    • culture
    • customs
    • customs-administration
    • customs-districts
    • development-cooperation
    • economy-economic-affairs
    • education
    • embassies
    • emigration
    • employee-protection
    • energy
    • environment
    • environmental-protection
    • extra-parliamentary-committees
    • federal-administration
    • federal-assembly
    • federal-buildings
    • federal-chancellery
    • federal-council
    • federal-parliament
    • finance-administration
    • finances
    • fishing
    • foreign-economic-affairs
    • foreign-policy
    • forestry
    • foundations
    • gain-administration
    • general
    • general-defence
    • general-staff
    • glam
    • government
    • head-of-department
    • health
    • housing
    • hunting
    • hydraulic-engineering
    • immigration
    • industry
    • intellectual-property
    • international-cooperation
    • international-organisations
    • investigation
    • investment-funds
    • justice
    • labour-law
    • land-improvement
    • land-register
    • legislation
    • media
    • meteorology
    • migration-authority
    • military-insurance
    • military-justice
    • military-leadership
    • national-budget
    • national-council
    • national-defence
    • national-supply
    • navigation
    • office-of-the-armed-forces-attorney-general
    • office-of-the-attorney-general-of-switzerland
    • openglam
    • parliamentary-committees
    • parliamentary-services
    • people
    • personnel-employed-by-the-confederation
    • police
    • postal-services
    • precious-metals
    • private-insurance
    • protection-of-foreign-interests
    • railways
    • refugees
    • research
    • road-construction
    • road-transport
    • saving-bank
    • school
    • science
    • science-policy
    • service-branches
    • social-insurance
    • social-security
    • spatial-planning
    • sports
    • state
    • statistics
    • swiss-representation-abroad
    • tax-administration
    • taxes
    • telecommunications
    • tenant-protection
    • topography
    • tourism
    • trade
    • transport
    • unemployment-insurance
    • veterinary-services
    • war-economy
    • water-management
    • welfare
    • work

  • State accounts - Domain

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector, Economy and finance

    In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure. The Federal...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • SPARQL
    • HTML
    • glam
    • openglam
    • budget
    • confederation
    • expenditure
    • federal-finance-administration
    • federal-finances
    • financial-planning
    • receipts
    • state-financial-statements
    • statement-of-financial-performance
    • statement-of-financial-position
    • supplement
    • supplementary-credit
    • swiss-confederation

  • State accounts - Function

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector, Economy and finance

    In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure. The Federal...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • SPARQL
    • HTML

  • State accounts - Category

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector, Economy and finance

    In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure. The Federal...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • SPARQL
    • HTML

  • State accounts - Office

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Government and public sector, Economy and finance

    In the state financial statements, the Federal Council details the receipts of the federal administration for the previous year and accounts for its expenditure. The Federal...

    Last updated: May 7, 2025

    • SPARQL
    • HTML
    • glam
    • openglam
    • budget
    • confederation
    • expenditure
    • federal-finance-administration
    • federal-finances
    • financial-planning
    • receipts
    • state-financial-statements
    • statement-of-financial-performance
    • statement-of-financial-position
    • supplement
    • supplementary-credit
    • swiss-confederation

  • Geneva Conventions

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector

    The first Geneva Convention “for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field”, was signed 150 years ago, on 22 August 1864. The original document from...

    Last updated: August 13, 2014

    • HTML
    • glam
    • openglam

  • Carl Durheim’s police photographs of stateless persons

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Population and society, Education, culture and sport, Justice, legal system and public safety, Economy and finance

    In 1852 and 1853 Carl Durheim, a pioneering photographer from Bern, was commissioned by the Confederation to photograph hundreds of stateless persons and travellers who had been...

    Last updated: December 15, 2014

    • HTML
    • glam
    • immigration
    • immigration-police
    • migration
    • openglam
    • police
    • poverty

  • Digitized official publications

    Swiss Federal Archives SFA
    Justice, legal system and public safety, Government and public sector

    Digitized Official Publications from Switzerland

    Dataset Overview

    This dataset contains digitized official publications hosted by the Swiss Federal Archives at...

    Last updated: March 6, 2025

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    • ZIP
    • historical-documents
    • swiss-official-publications
    • digitization
    • federal-gazette
    • federal-bulletin
    • federal-assembly
    • federal-council
    • parliamentary-proceedings
    • government-publications
    • historical-archives
    • ocr-text
    • swiss-legislation
    • administrative-documents
    • federal-administration
    • digital-humanities

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