bfs_get_sse_data: Get data from the Swiss Stats Explorer (deprecated)

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Get data from the Swiss Stats Explorer (deprecated)

Description

Deprecated since BFS 0.8.0: use bfs_sse_data() instead. It downloads the data faster and stops on a query that wouldn't filter the data. This function still works and gets only bug fixes, e.g. the labels of codes with no name in language (see NEWS). To move your code, see the article Moving to the new Swiss Stats Explorer functions.

Download a dataset of the Swiss Stats Explorer (SSE) API (https://stats.swiss/). Select the data you need with query, built from the codelists of bfs_get_sse_metadata().

Usage

bfs_get_sse_data(
  number_bfs,
  language = "de",
  start_period = NULL,
  end_period = NULL,
  query = NULL,
  column_name_type = "code",
  variable_value_type = "text",
  clean_names = FALSE
)

Arguments

number_bfs	The id of an SSE dataset (dataflow), e.g. "DF_LWZ_1". It is shown in the URL of the dataset on https://stats.swiss/.
language	Language of the labels: "de" (default), "fr", "it" or "en".
start_period, end_period	Optional first and last period of the data, e.g. "2020".
query	A named list: the names are dimension codes (column code of bfs_get_sse_metadata()) and the values are value codes (column value), e.g. list(FREQ = "M", COUNTRY_ORIGIN = c("CH", "AUSL")). A dimension not in query keeps all its values. If NULL (default), the whole dataset is downloaded, which can be large and slow.
column_name_type	Column names as dimension "code" (default) or "text" (label).
variable_value_type	Values as "text" (label, default) or "code".
clean_names	If TRUE, clean the column names with janitor::clean_names().

Details

The list of the SSE datasets is cached for the R session. A long-running R session, e.g. a Shiny app, keeps using the version of a dataset it saw first: call bfs_clear_cache() to use a new version, or use bfs_sse_data(), which caches nothing.

Value

A tibble with one column per dimension and the observations in the value column. Returns NULL if there is no internet connection.

Author(s)

Marius Hodel

See Also

bfs_sse_data(), bfs_get_sse_metadata()

Examples

bfs_get_sse_data(
  number_bfs = "DF_PASTA_552_MONTHLY",
  language = "en",
  query = list(
    FREQ = "M",
    ACCOMMODATION_TYPE = "552001",
    COUNTRY_ORIGIN = c("CH", "AUSL")
  ),
  start_period = "2020",
  end_period = "2023"
)

BFS documentation built on Oct. 21, 2026, 1:07 a.m.