Switzerland, Data Sources
Last revision: 19-07-2016
LIVE BIRTHS
Live births by age and birth cohort of mother and birth order
2012–2014: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Corinne Di Loreto (SFSO) on
03.02.2016. Live births by Lexis triangles (RefCode 5)
2004–2011: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Stephane Cotter (SFSO) on
16.01.2013. Live births by Lexis triangles (RefCode 2)
Live births by birth cohort of mother and birth order
1998–2003: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Stephane Cotter (SFSO) on
16.01.2013. Live births by Lexis vertical parallelograms (RefCode 2)
Live births by age and birth cohort of mother
1988–1997: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Stephane Cotter (SFSO) on
16.01.2013. Live births by Lexis triangles (RefCode 2)
1986–1987: Observatoire Démographique Européen (ODE). Live births by Lexis triangles
(RefCode 3)
1979–1985: Gérard Calot, Alain Confesson, Jean-Paul Sardon, Erminio Barazini, Stéphane
Cotter, and Philippe Wanner (1998). Two Centuries of Swiss Demographic History: Graphic
Album of the 1860-2050 period. Neuchâtel: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Live births by
Lexis triangles (RefCode 1)
1969–1978: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Stephane Cotter (SFSO) on
16.01.2013. Live births by Lexis triangles (RefCode 2)
1944–1968: Gérard Calot, Alain Confesson, Jean-Paul Sardon, Erminio Barazini, Stéphane
Cotter, and Philippe Wanner (1998). Two Centuries of Swiss Demographic History: Graphic
Album of the 1860-2050 period. Neuchâtel: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Live births by
Lexis triangles (RefCode 1)
Live births by age of mother
1932–1943: Observatoire Démographique Européen (ODE). Live births by Lexis squares
(RefCode 3)
Live births by month
2012–2014: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. STAT-TAB – the interactive database of SFSO
available at https://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/. Data downloaded on 01.02.2016 (RefCode 4)
1871–2011: Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Data provided by Stephane Cotter (SFSO) on
16.01.2013. (RefCode 2)
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FEMALE POPULATION: Exposure by age and year of birth
1876–2014: Female exposure population by calendar year, age, and year of birth (Lexis
triangles) is estimated using data on population size and deaths from the Human Mortality
Database, which is available at http://www.mortality.org or http://www.humanmortality.de.
(RefCode 6)
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