Swiss structural business statistics (STATENT) 2015-2021

The Swiss structural business statistics (STATENT) is published yearly starting with the reference year 2011. STATENT is mainly based on register data and complemented by several business surveys. Full-time equivalents (FTE) of employment are not available in the register data and should be constructed. The FTE model was developed on matched data coming from the register and two surveys – the quarterly survey of employment (JobStat) and the quarterly survey of new enterprises (ERST). In this report, we first describe the modifications in the methodology used for the construction of FTE for STATENT following the revision of the JobStat survey in 2015. Then, we describe subsequent changes in the model and in the data following the revision of STATENT in 2021. Finally, we describe a bootstrap method for estimating the variance of total FTE and show its results for STATENT 2020 and 2021.