DOI: 10.23662/fors-ds-1107-1
title: Life course and experiences of mobility (ch-x 2016/2017)
title: Parcours de vie et expériences de mobilité (ch-x 2016/2017)
title: Lebenslaufbahn und Mobilitätserfahrungen (ch-x 2016/2017)
title: Percorsi di vita ed esperienze di mobilità (ch-x 2016/2017)

description: FORS won the open tender by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports to conduct the 2016-17 Swiss Federal Surveys of Adolescents (ch-x), which focuses on the topic of the geographical mobility of young people. ch-x are long-established large-scale surveys conducted amongst 19 to 21-year-old Swiss citizens. They provide virtually full coverage of young men drafted into the army, as well as a sample of women of the same age. The 2016-17 edition will allow an entire cohort of young men over a two-year period to be examined, as well as a complementary sample of approximately 2,000 women of the same age. Never before has there been a large-scale survey of this nature on the topic of mobility, with a special focus on language, professional and cultural stays in other language areas of Switzerland and abroad. The comprehensiveness of the paper questionnaire (over 100 questions) as well as the number of respondents in the dataset (more than 40,000) result in extremely rich data that will enable significant contributions in the fields of mobility and youth studies.
description: FORS won the open tender by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports to conduct the 2016-17 Swiss Federal Surveys of Adolescents (ch-x), which focuses on the topic of the geographical mobility of young people. ch-x are long-established large-scale surveys conducted amongst 19 to 21-year-old Swiss citizens. They provide virtually full coverage of young men drafted into the army, as well as a sample of women of the same age. The 2016-17 edition will allow an entire cohort of young men over a two-year period to be examined, as well as a complementary sample of approximately 2,000 women of the same age. Never before has there been a large-scale survey of this nature on the topic of mobility, with a special focus on language, professional and cultural stays in other language areas of Switzerland and abroad. The comprehensiveness of the paper questionnaire (over 100 questions) as well as the number of respondents in the dataset (more than 40,000) result in extremely rich data that will enable significant contributions in the fields of mobility and youth studies. First results, in the form of a publication for the general public are expected to be released in 2019. Subsequently, the data will be made available to the scientific community for further analysis.
description: Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
description: Questionnaire auto-administré: papier
description: Selbst ausgefüllter Fragebogen: Papier
description: All young Swiss men (18-19 years old) taking part in the army recruitment process in 2016-2017, as well as an additional sample of 2,000 women.
description: Other sampling method : Male population: The survey was carried out during the recruitment days in 2016 and 2017, which took place at the six CERECs of the Swiss Army. In addition to the medical, psychological and sports examinations, the conscripts take part in the ch-x survey. Female sample: As with every ch-x survey, based on a stratified sampling strategy a complementary sample of young Swiss women was selected. In addition to the five major cities of Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, around 100 municipalities were selected at random. Young women aged 18 to 19 were also randomly selected from these municipalities. The questionnaire was sent to them by post.