Total Social Security Accounts

The total Social Security Accounts ( GRSS ) is a synthesis of statistics. Created using a variety of statistical sources ( operating accounts of social security, public finance statistics (EFS), Swiss Social Security Statistics ( SVS ), etc.), informing them of the expenditure and its financing in the field of social security. On the expenditure side are the benefits, on the revenue side, the social security contributions of employers and employees, the head premiums for compulsory health insurance, the contributions of the public sector as well as the investment income in the center of interest.

The GRSS is internationally comparable, since they ( ESSOSS ) based on the model developed by Eurostat, " European System of integrated Social Protection Statistics ".

Total expenditure on social security rose in 2010 ( currently still provisional data ) in Switzerland to 153 billion Swiss francs (2000: 107 billion francs). The receipts amounted to 2010 176 billion francs. The actual core of the GRSS form the social benefits. They result from the total expenditure minus the cost of implementation and other ( administrative ) expenses and amounted to CHF 139 billion in 2010.

Legal foundations

The legal basis of the total Social Security Accounts serve the postulate of the Commission on Social Security and Health of the National of 17 February 1995 and the Federal Statistics Law Article 10, paragraph 2, of 9 Okt 1992.

Type of survey

In Switzerland, dated the first attempts to arrive at a general overview of the finances of Social Security, from the 1970s and 1980s. Direct predecessors of today's summary statistics is the " social budget of Switzerland ", which have developed " change of life forms and Social Security ' for the years 1990 and 1993 P. Gilliand and S. Rossini under the National Science Foundation project. Methodologically, these works lean against, the then valid ESSOSS. 1995 S. updated Greppi the " social budget of Switzerland ». The following year, Eurostat published a new Esspros manual. The FSO has taken the methodological guidelines of this new manual with regard to the comparability of the Swiss GRSS with the accounts of EU countries one on one. Based on this unified methodology must Esspros certain areas which are for social policy in Switzerland of importance, are excluded. For example, tax deductions are excluded with a substantial social component of the total bill.

Detection characteristics

We process the whole of Switzerland, for institutions (AHV, IV, etc.) divided information on the finances of Social Security, expressed in millions of francs. The values ​​and indicators of the GRSS are reported only at the national level. The calculated benefits can be divided into the following eight risks or needs (called functions) divide: sickness / health care, disability, old age, survivors, family and children, unemployment, housing and social exclusion. They form the very core of ESSOSS methodology and allow detailed international comparisons. But from a national perspective, they point to the risks and needs are to what extent covered by social welfare services. By far the largest share of benefits (44%) attributable to the function of age. More than a quarter (27%) of the expenditure is used Sickness / Health care in the area. In third place with 11% followed by the benefits of functional disability.

Implementation

The total Social Security Accounts will be created annually by the Federal Statistical Office. The publication of 2012 focuses on the one hand heavily on the various functions and the other hand on the international comparability. So, for example, shows that Switzerland ( measured in purchasing power standards ) is one of the absolute leaders in the Old age function. In contrast, comparatively little social security benefits for family / children function are reported. In addition, the GRSS distinction between means-tested and non- means-tested benefits, with by far the largest part of the services constitute not means-tested social security benefits for old-age function ( old-age pensions of the first and second column ). The time series of data already exists since 1950. However, the figures for the first four decades on estimates which are subject to some uncertainty based.

The Federal Social Insurance Office publishes the accounts of social security ( GRSV ). This includes the revenue and expenditure of the social security branches AHV, IV, EL, KV, UV, ALV, EO and FZ. The GRSV possible primarily analyzes from a national perspective and can answer questions about the institutions of social insurance.

Sources and References

• Federal Statistical Office ( FSO ), total Social Security Accounts ( GRSS ), Characteristics