Swiss Hospital Nurse and Physician Wages and Staffing Levels, 2018-2020

Routinely collected hospital data from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics covering 2018–2020 was analyzed to examine wage-staffing relationships. Nurse staffing levels showed a modest positive correlation with wages (ρ=0.22–0.38), while physician staffing showed a moderate to strong inverse correlation (ρ=−0.56 to −0.61). The analysis, authored by Aleksandra Vasic, is descriptive and cross-sectional, with results not intended to be interpreted as causal.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between wage structures and staffing levels based on hospital-level stratification
• Investigating potential mechanisms linking workforce composition to hospital performance
• Benchmarking Swiss acute care hospital staffing metrics against wage data

Strengths

• Data covers three consecutive years (2018–2020) from a national statistical office
• Analyses are stratified by hospital level, allowing for granular comparisons
• Correlation coefficients (ρ) and p-values (<0.001) are reported for both nurse and physician associations

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The cross-sectional design limits causal inference, as noted in the description

Provenance

Source

Swiss Federal Office of Statistics

Collection Method

Routinely collected hospital data

Time Range

2018–2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:31:00

Geography

Switzerland