# Methodology and definitions

## Finding

In the 2025 Swiss Labour Force Survey, 19.09919416% of employees in direct household employment worked on call, compared with 8.094045116% across all industries. Helpore divided and subtracted the unrounded official cells, producing a ratio of 2.3596599581889457 and a gap of 11.005149044 percentage points. Displayed figures are rounded to one decimal place.

## Population and scope

The survey covers Switzerland's permanent resident population aged 15 and over. These industry estimates concern employees excluding apprentices. The household category covers private households as employers of domestic personnel. Company supplied workers and independent providers are classified elsewhere. On call means an employee works only when called upon by the employer.

## Source and date

The Swiss Federal Statistical Office released the 2025 data on 18 May 2026. Official metadata: https://dam-api.bfs.admin.ch/hub/api/dam/assets/36516769. Official chart: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8b70052136b6d8a7b69ba142af689ee5/2/. Source dataset: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8b70052136b6d8a7b69ba142af689ee5/2/dataset.csv.

## Interpretation

This is a comparison of employee prevalence. It does not measure the share of households using on call work, the exact terms of individual jobs or their legality.

## Rights

Helpore's analysis and charts are licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The underlying official statistics remain subject to their source terms and attribution.