bfs

Bfs

Name: Bfs
Creator: Bfs

Metadata onlyLicense under review

Metadata only. This source’s license does not permit redistribution, so we catalog its metadata but do not re-serve the data. Use the provider link to obtain it under the original terms.

Licensing & provenance

License: License under review
Redistribution: Not permitted (metadata only)
Commercial use: Restricted / no
Modification: Permitted

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.html
Update cadence: monthly
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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  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/bfs.html",
  "identifier": "bfs",
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
  },
  "creator": {
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  },
  "keywords": [
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  ],
  "sameAs": [
    "https://huggingface.co/datasets/econdatalibrary-bfs",
    "https://zenodo.org/communities/econdatalibrary"
  ],
  "usageInfo": "Metadata-only catalog entry. This source's license does not permit redistribution, so the data itself is not served here; use the provider link to obtain the data under its terms."
}

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

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    "@language": "en",
    "@vocab": "https://schema.org/",
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    "data": {
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      "@type": "@json"
    },
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      "@type": "@vocab"
    },
    "sc": "https://schema.org/",
    "conformsTo": "dct:conformsTo",
    "dct": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
  },
  "@type": "sc:Dataset",
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  "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com/bfs.html",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Bfs"
  },
  "publisher": {
    "@type": "sc:Organization",
    "name": "Econ Data Library",
    "url": "https://econdatalibrary.com"
  },
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "usageInfo": "Metadata-only Croissant record; underlying data is not redistributed under this source's license."
}

Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-07-14 from the central registry · browse all datasets