page_title: Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland)
section_title: Product range
hierarchical_section_title: Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland) / Product range
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Titelbild Publikation Statistisches Jahrbuch 2010
context_page_description: The Federal Statistical Office is a Federal agency of the Swiss Confederation. It is the statistics office of Switzerland, situated in Neuchâtel and attached to the Federal Department of Home Affairs.
  The Federal Statistical Office is the national service provider and competence centre for statistical observations in areas of national, social, economic and environmental importance. The FSO is the main producer of statistics in the country and runs the Swiss Statistics data pool. It provides information on all subject areas covered by official statistics.
  The office is closely linked to the national statistics scene as well as to partners in the worlds of science, business and politics. It works closely with Eurostat, the Statistics Office of the European Union, in order to provide information that is also comparable at an international level.
  The key principles upheld by the office throughout its statistical activities are data protection, scientific reliability, impartiality, topicality and service orientation.
context_section_description: The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) offers the following products:
  the statistics portal on the internet
  Publications
  spatial analyses in a geographical information system (GIS)
  thematic cartography
  a telephone enquiry service and 24h fax on demand service (national consumer price index)
  an information centre open to the general public (Espace public) in Neuchâtel with library and electronic information
  a specialised range of products for schools with graphs and teaching aids (Schools forum)
  The statistics portal (www.statistik.admin.ch) enables key statistical findings to be published quickly. The web site is updated daily. Links and downloads lead straight to the content. RSS subscribers are notified of new statistical results and activities via the portal and thus kept up-to-date.
  As far as publications are concerned, the "Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland" (German/French) has been the standard reference book for Swiss statistics since 1891. It contains the most important statistical findings regarding the Swiss population, society, government, economy and environment. In addition to the Yearbook, further FSO printed publications appear on a monthly, three-monthly, six-monthly or annual basis. The Swiss Statistical Lexicon offers a collection of data to be downloaded: there are tables, graphs, maps, texts and whole publications on all statistical topic areas. For specific audiences a range of products on certain themes are available as special applications, databases and also data collections. A fee may be charged for some of these products.
  The federal statistics' product range is divided into 22 topic areas (* only available in German and French):
  Basics and Overviews
  Population
  Territory and environment
  Employment and income
  National economy
  Prices
  Industry and services
  Agriculture, forestry
  Energy*
  Construction and housing*
  Tourism*
  Mobility and transport
  Banks and insurance*
  Social security
  Health
  Education and science
  Culture, media, information society, sports*
  Politics*
  Public finance*
  Crime, criminal justice
  Economic and social situation of the population
  Sustainable development
caption: Statistical Yearbook 2010
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