Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland
By the Federal Statistical Office ( FSO) issued Statistical Yearbook since 1891 the standard work of the Swiss statistics. It summarizes the main statistical results to the population, society, state, economy and environment of the country together. It not only serves as a reference work, but with his survey contributed a comprehensive picture of the social and economic situation of Switzerland.
- 2.1 The CD -ROM to the Statistical Yearbook
The Emergence of the yearbook
On June 29, 1887, the desire for a statistical yearbook was expressed in the National Council for the first time. The Federal Council then agreed to take the implementation of this suggestion in the eye, but wanted the issue a little wait and see, to accommodate the results of the census of 1888 in the first year book may (but this was only partially possible then ).
Two years later - on July 22, 1889 - submitted to the director of the statistical Büreaus, Dr. Guillaume, at the conference of Swiss statisticians in Aarau six theses on the planned work before, which were adopted after a short discussion. In the first thesis of the end of the statistical year book was circumscribed: the yearbook should bring the chief results of the Switzerland of statistics in easy to understand tables and, where possible, in comparable annual series for general information. As models mentioned Guillaume the Yearbook of Finland ( a bilingual, thinly held Paperback ) and that of the German Reich ( a little bigger and equipped with colored cards band).
At the conference of Swiss statistician of 18 October 1890 in Bern Guillaume presented the specific chapter structure and a sample chapter for consultation.
The first Statistical Yearbook of Switzerland, 270 pages long, the audience was finally passed on April 8, 1891. The reactions were apparently mostly positive, the first-time publication seemed to meet the requirements that had been addressed to such publication.
Development over 100 years
The approach adopted in the early days of the Statistical Yearbook concept to provide information on the boundaries of a professional audience out to the wider use meets the modern principles of statistics diffusion. This will also involve a festzustellende more than 100 years of similarity in the choice of certain means: So already the notes to the first cohort contained a visualization of statistics in the form of thematic maps, and the output in 1897 was a pure graphic tape. The element " text " was already used in 1892 also strengthened.
Not all editions of the Yearbook are modern in this sense: For decades, pure table volumes were published; to texts and graphics renounced man - not least for reasons of cost. Only in 1989, with the 96th year, were again taken significant steps towards better readability and user- friendliness, tried the year bookmaker with a redesign again, " zoom to bring statistics closer to the citizens " ( as Federal Cotti in the preface ). In 2001, the Statistical Yearbook underwent a further renovation: Currently it presents itself as a 900 -page, four-color plant with integrated CD -ROM, which (since 2003 ), in addition to data, an interactive atlas.
Current year book concept
The chapters of the yearbook today - they correspond to the areas of official statistics - are each divided into the following four parts:
The CD- ROM to the Statistical Yearbook
On the Yearbook CD -ROM ( not sold separately ) can be found:
The full description and instructions for use of all applications can be found on the CD.
Yearbook Archive
Thanks to close cooperation with the Federal Office for computer science and Telecommunications ( BIT ), the FSO make an electronic version of all editions of the Yearbook vintages from 1891 to 1957 available - a useful and interesting source for historians, students and all others interested.
The files in pdf format, they have the view of the original typography, their lyrics are so good to open up by electronic research opportunities as those of a modern electronic publication. However, the files are quite large ( 16-50 MB ), but if one has a high speed internet connection, the download should not be a problem.
Statistical Data on Switzerland
The " Statistical Data on Switzerland " is an annually updated, clear, small manual - intended as emergency rations of the most important figures of Switzerland. The 50-page free publication in A5 format fits in any jacket pocket and contains the most important information from the fields of geography, demography, labor and employment, business and transport, social security, education and science. The " Statistical Data on Switzerland " appears in five languages: German, French, Italian, Romansh and English.