Federal Statistics Act
(FStatA)

¹ In­so­far as the Con­fed­er­a­tion has the ne­ces­sary data avail­able or that such data be­comes avail­able to an or­gan­isa­tion sub­ject to this Act in the im­ple­ment­a­tion of fed­er­al law (fed­er­al ad­min­is­trat­ive data), sep­ar­ate sur­veys need not be con­duc­ted by fed­er­al stat­ist­ic­al bod­ies (dir­ect sur­veys, in­dir­ect sur­veys or sur­veys based on ob­ser­va­tions and meas­ure­ments).

² In the event that the data re­quired by fed­er­al stat­ist­ic­al bod­ies on third parties is avail­able from can­ton­al or com­mun­al agen­cies or from oth­er en­tit­ies of the pub­lic law, such data must be col­lec­ted from said agen­cies or en­tit­ies (in­dir­ect sur­vey).

³ Dir­ect sur­veys re­quire the col­lec­tion of new data at source by in­ter­view­ing nat­ur­al per­sons and leg­al en­tit­ies for the sole pur­poses of this Act. The num­ber and type of sur­veys are lim­ited to what is strictly ne­ces­sary.

⁴ In the case of sur­veys con­duc­ted in terms of this Act, the Con­fed­er­a­tion gives no­tice of the pur­pose and the leg­al basis for pro­cessing the data, and the cat­egor­ies of par­ti­cipants in the data re­cords and the data re­cip­i­ents.

⁵ The or­gan­isa­tions, agen­cies and oth­er pub­lic leg­al en­tit­ies in terms of para­graphs 1 and 2 must make the data avail­able to the Fed­er­al Stat­ist­ic­al Of­fice free of charge.⁹