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bfs

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Bundesamt für Statistik / Office fédéral de la statistique, FSO/BFS)

Name: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Bundesamt für Statistik / Office fédéral de la statistique, FSO/BFS)
Creator: Swiss Federal Statistical Office
License: https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use

Open · redistributedopendata.swiss — open use, source must be providedMacroeconomics

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

582

Temporal coverage

1801-12-31 – present

Licensing & provenance

License: opendata.swiss — open use, source must be provided
License URL: https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use
Required attribution: Source: Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.bfs.admin.ch
Provider terms: https://opendata.swiss/en/terms-of-use

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download bfs series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/bfs
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: single parquet: data/clean_full/bfs/bfs.parquet (zstd, ~14MB), columns (series_key='BFS:{dbid}:{dim}={code}:...', obs_date, value). Written incrementally to the SAME path as a checkpoint every 50 tables and once at the end.

Full description

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS/OFS) — PxWeb ingest. License: OPEN-BY-ASK (free for non-commercial use with attribution) Source: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken.html No API key required. Coverage: ~673 tables in the BFS PxWeb database (German API): * National accounts (GDP, GNI, output) * Labour market (employment, wages, unemployment) * Prices (CPI, producer prices) * Trade (imports/exports) * Population and demography * Housing and construction * Industry and services * Finance and insurance * Health and education PxWeb multi-table root: GET /api/v1/en/ → list all table IDs Data query: POST /api/v1/de/{dbid}/{table}.px/ → JSON-stat2 NOTE: English API returns 400 for individual tables; use German endpoint for data. Run: python jobs/ingest_bfs.py

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets