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Switzerland
Price index: Consumer prices

Last Posted:	Jul-31-2009
Last Certified:	Dec-30-2008
Last Updated:	Jun-30-2009

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	Mr. Bernard Buchenel, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), Espace de l'Europe 10, Neuchâtel, Switzerland CH-2010
	Phone :	41 32 713 69 00
	Fax :	41 32 713 63 41
	Email :	bernard.buchenel@bfs.admin.ch
	Mr. Norbert Lüber, Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), Espace de l'Europe 10, Neuchâtel, Switzerland CH-2010
	Phone :	41 32 713 6011
	Fax :	41 32 713 6012
	Email :	Information@bfs.admin.ch
Dissemination Formats

Summary Methodology
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The Data: Coverage, Periodicity, and Timeliness
Coverage characteristics
5.1.1 Statistical presentation

Data are disseminated on the CPI, an index covering the entire country (December 2005=100).
Periodicity
4.1.1 Periodicity

Monthly
Timeliness
4.1.2 Timeliness

Usually at the end of the reference month, and no later than 5 days after the end of the reference month.
Access by the Public
Advance dissemination of
release calendar
5.1.3 Advance release calendar

All results are released as announced by the annual release calendar: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/05/01/rel.html
Simultaneous release to all
interested parties
5.1.4 Simultaneous release

The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties by issuing the press release Indice suisse des prix a la consommation.
Integrity
Dissemination of terms and
conditions under which
official statistics are
produced, including those
relating to the confidentiality
of individually identifiable
information
0.1.1 Responsibility for collecting, processing, and disseminating statistics
Swiss Federal Statistical Office

The compilation and publication of the data are governed by the Federal Law on Statistics (10/9/92) and the Federal Law on Data Protection (06/19/92).

Price index: Consumer prices

The data are disseminated by the Swiss FSO as a service to the public.
0.1.3 Confidentiality of individual reporters' data
Swiss Federal Statistical Office

The Federal Law on Data Protection specifies that the Swiss Federal Statistical Office cannot publish, or otherwise make available to any individual or organization, statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity.
1.1.1 Impartiality of statistics
Swiss Federal Statistical Office

The Federal Law on Statistics provides that federal statistics have to be produced in an independent and scientifically correct way.

The laws also specify that the Swiss Federal Statistical Office is autonomous.
1.2.1 Disclosure of terms and conditions for statistical collection, processing, and dissemination
Swiss Federal Statistical Office

The Laws and Ordinance are published in French, German and Italian:

Copies can be obtained, for a fee, from:

BBL/EDMZ
CH -3003
Bern, Switzerland
Fax: 41 31 325 5058

Are available on the Internet at:

http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/43.html#431 (french);

http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/43.html#431 (german);

http://www.admin.ch/ch/i/rs/43.html#431 (italian).
Identification of internal
government access to data
before release
1.2.2 Internal governmental access to statistics prior to release

The data are made available to the following, two to four days before their release to the public: the Minister of Economy, the Minister of Home Affairs and the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank.
Identification of ministerial
commentary on the occasion of
statistical releases
Provision of information
about revision and advance
notice of major changes in
methodology
4.3.1 Revision schedule
The data are final when first released and are not subject to revision.
1.2.4 Advance notice of major changes in methodology, source data, and statistical techniques.

Major changes in methodology are announced in news releases.
Quality
Dissemination of
documentation on methodology
and sources used in preparing
statistics
5.2.1 Dissemination of documentation on concepts, scope, classifications, basis of recording, data sources, and statistical techniques

A description of the last revision (CPI 2005) and the methodology currently used is published in French, German and Italian in Actualité OFS. Le nouvel indice suisse des prix à la consommation: décembre 2005 =100, Neuchâtel 2006. Copies are available on request from the contact person.

Also available on Internet as a download: FSO: Consumer Price Index (December 2005=100) - Methodological foundations, Neuchâtel 2008. http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/05/22/publ.html?publicationID=3186

(See also summary methodology)
Dissemination of component
detail, reconciliations with
related data, and statistical
frameworks that support
statistical cross-checks
and provide assurance of
reasonableness
4.2.1 Internal consistency

All results are released on the same day as announced by the agenda: http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/05/01/rel.html
4.2.2 Temporal consistency

The Internet Website (http://www.LIK.bfs.admin.ch) publishes the press release, monthly indices on different basis, detailed results since 1966 and long series since the beginning of CPI calculation in 1914.

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