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Material flow accounts - Direct input flows and their aggregates

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Section Environment, Sustainable Development, Territory, email: umwelt@bfs.admin.ch
Thousand tonnes, Tonnes per person (resident population on the 31st December)
Now you have come to the page, Choose variable. This page give you the oportunity to select which variables and values you want to display in your result of the table. A variable is a property of a statistical unit. The page is divided into several boxes, one for each variable, where you can select values by click to highlight one or more values. It always starts with the statistics variable which is the main value counted in the table.
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Field for searching for a specific value in the list box. This is examples of values you can search for.Material categories - total , 1 Biomass , 1.01 Crops (excluding fodder crops) ,

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Metainformation:
Last update: new data (year 2021), revised values (1990-2020)
Database status: June 2023
Reference period: calendar year
Spatial reference: Switzerland
Source: Environmental accounts - Material flow accounts Symbols used:
'*' : Values not shown because not obvious nor relevant or unknown
'0' : < 0,000001 Cube description:
The flows presented in this interactive table are:
- Domestic extraction used DEU: DEU measures the flows of materials that originate from the Swiss environment and that physically enter the economy.
- Imports: all raw materials or manufactured products, which enter in Switzerland from abroad and all materials consumed abroad by Swiss resident units (residence principle).
- Exports: all raw materials or manufactured products, which leave Switzerland and all materials consumed in Switzerland by non-resident units (residence principle). Indicators presented in this interactive table are:
- DMC (Domestic Material Consumption) = DEU + Imports - Exports
- DMI (Direct Material Input) = DEU + Imports
- PTB (Physical Trade Balance) = Exports - Imports Material categories
Flows are disaggregated by material type following the Eurostat nomenclature (Economy-wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA): Handbook 2018). Important remarks
Domestic extraction used:
By definition material extracted from the territory are raw. For this flow, data in products categories do not exist. Imports, exports and their aggregates
Original data are from the Swiss trade statistics established by the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security FOCBS. This involves:
- Trade statistics are classified by product type (car, hat ...) while material flow accounts are based on a classification by material types (biomass, metal ...). To switch from one classification to the other, products are classified following their main material. Non-classifiable products are put in the category «Other products». This involves that data quality is lower for the finer subcategories.
- Imports and exports of waste cannot be extracted from the trade statistics before 2002. More information about MFA:
Environmental accounting - Material flow accounts

Material categories

4.02.03 Fuels bunkered 1)

Imports: by resident units abroad; Exports: by non-resident units domestically

4.02.03.02 Fuel for water transport 2)

Marine transport not included