swiss-living-index

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  "id": "aix_93ab3c6526",
  "name": "swiss-living-index",
  "operator": "(unclaimed - source: registry-official · publisher: ch.swisslivingindex)",
  "description": "Official Swiss living-cost & relocation data for all 26 cantons — taxes, rent, premiums, jobs.",
  "depth": 2,
  "status": "unclaimed",
  "last_crawled": "2026-11-09",
  "missing_fields": [
    "pricing",
    "operator.identity"
  ],
  "skills": [
    "calendar-sync",
    "invoice-parsing"
  ],
  "protocols": {
    "mcp": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp",
    "a2a": null
  },
  "pricing": null,
  "regions": [
    "global"
  ],
  "languages": [
    "en"
  ],
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    "dispute_rate": null,
    "p95_latency_ms": 2970,
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  "aix_score": 39,
  "verification": {
    "identity": "none",
    "health": "probe/24h",
    "pricing": "unknown",
    "last_check": "2026-11-09T20:01:18.299Z"
  },
  "pricing_model": "unknown",
  "links": [
    {
      "label": "homepage",
      "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/"
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "mcp_server": "swiss-living-index",
    "mcp_version": "1.52.0",
    "tool_count": 72,
    "tools": [
      {
        "name": "list_metrics",
        "description": "List every metric available for the 26 Swiss cantons: key, label, unit, official source and whether higher or lower is better. Call this first to find the metric key for rank_by_metric, get_canton or get_trend."
      },
      {
        "name": "rent_index",
        "description": "Rent index per Swiss canton: BFS average rent of occupied rented flats (structural survey, existing rents, not asking rents) by canton and number of rooms with the 95% confidence interval, 2010 onwards, plus a size-standardised rent (DERIVED by Swiss Living Index: each canton weighted with one fixed Swiss mix of dwellings by rooms) as a level index (Switzerland = 100) and change index (first year = 100), growth over 5 years and since 2010, vacancy rate and the national CPI rent index. With canton: its full yearly series; without: all cantons ranked. Also the rent statistics Basel-Stadt (quarte"
      },
      {
        "name": "ahv_pension",
        "description": "Swiss AHV/AVS old-age pension (1st pillar, AHV-Rente, rente AVS, rendita AVS). ALWAYS call this for any question about the state pension, including «how much AHV pension will I get?»: never answer a personal amount from memory. Returns the official minimum and maximum (2026, 2027), the 13th pension, reference age, early withdrawal and deferral rates, and a PERSONAL ESTIMATE computed with the law (AHVG Art. 34 formula, partial-pension scale, income splitting for married couples, child-rearing credits, couple cap, AHV 21 supplements). Pass ONLY values the user stated (never guess income, birth y"
      },
      {
        "name": "school_holidays",
        "description": "School holidays of the compulsory schools (Volksschule) in the 26 Swiss cantons for the current and next school year, read from each canton's own sources (not the EDK list): autumn, Christmas, sports/carnival, spring/Easter as first and last weekday off, summer start, who sets the dates (whole canton, region of the capital, canton and communes, or communes), source links, a calendar file (.ics) per canton, and which cantons are on holiday this week. With canton: that canton; without: all."
      },
      {
        "name": "tax_deadlines",
        "description": "Tax return filing rules for natural persons in the 26 Swiss cantons, read from each cantonal tax administration: ordinary filing deadline (or that the date printed on the return applies), deadline for the self-employed, free extension until, latest extension, extension fee, the online extension link, and the cantonal wording with source links. Rules of the current tax year; the cantons publish the next year in January/February. The date on the tax return is binding."
      },
      {
        "name": "pollen",
        "description": "Pollen in Switzerland from the MeteoSwiss pollen network (open data, CC BY 4.0; credit «Source: MeteoSwiss»): daily mean concentration (grains per m³, 6 to 6 UTC) of hazel, alder, birch, ash, beech, oak and grasses at the 15 stations for the last 14 days, and a pollen calendar derived from the last ten complete years (weekly means, main season, peak week). With canton (2-letter code): its nearest station; without: every station plus the national calendar by month."
      },
      {
        "name": "federal_votes",
        "description": "Results of every Swiss federal vote since 1981 (FSO open data; official titles in DE FR IT RM EN): without arguments the list of vote days with every proposal and its national result (yes %, turnout, cantons for and against, accepted); with date (YYYY-MM-DD) that day with the result of every canton; with date and commune (name or BFS number) or canton the result there; with commune alone that commune's results of the latest votes. Communes in today's boundaries (mapped by the FSO)."
      },
      {
        "name": "parliament_member",
        "description": "Members of the Swiss Federal Parliament (National Council 200, Council of States 46) from the Parliamentary Services' open data web service ws.parlament.ch, refreshed daily: council, canton, party, parliamentary group and function, seat number, career in both chambers since joining, year and place of birth as published (never the full date), occupations with employer, mandates, committees and delegations with function, declared interests (Art. 11 Parliament Act: organisation, legal form, body, function, paid or unpaid), the official e-mail address and own website shown on the parlament.ch prof"
      },
      {
        "name": "parliament_vote",
        "description": "Votes of the Swiss National Council since 2007 (legislatures 48–52; Parliamentary Services, ws.parlament.ch; current legislature daily): every electronic vote with business number and title, bill, subject, what yes and no meant, time, totals (yes, no, abstain, excused, did not vote, presiding) and totals per parliamentary group. Without arguments: the final votes (Schlussabstimmungen) with result. With query (words of the title) or business (e.g. 26.033): matching votes. With id: that vote in full incl. how every member voted and the totals per canton. With member (name): add that member's dec"
      },
      {
        "name": "parliament_and_people",
        "description": "Parliament next to the people: for every National Council final vote of the current legislature whose bill later went to a popular vote, the chamber's result (yes, no, abstain, by group) next to the national popular result (yes %, accepted). Matched only on the exact title (the initiative title in «…», or the act title without «vom <date>»); unmatched items are left out rather than guessed. For an initiative a yes in the chamber is a yes to the federal decree with its recommendation, not to the initiative. Commune and canton results: federal_votes with the date."
      },
      {
        "name": "parliament_session",
        "description": "Sessions of the Swiss Parliament in the current legislature (Parliamentary Services, ws.parlament.ch): dates, sittings of each chamber, number of speeches, speaking time in total and by parliamentary group per chamber (Federal Council separately), the items debated longest, and the final votes of the session. Without session: the list of sessions. Speaking time = end minus start of each speech in the Official Bulletin, without remarks from the chair."
      },
      {
        "name": "parliament_business",
        "description": "The path of a Swiss parliamentary item (Geschäft) that reached a National Council final vote in the current legislature: title, type, responsible department, submission date, topics, the dated status history (submitted, in committee, planned, final vote, done), the debate days in each chamber with number of speeches and speaking time and the link to the Official Bulletin, the final vote result and, where it went to the people, the popular vote. Find it by business number (e.g. 26.033) or by words of the title."
      },
      {
        "name": "search_speeches",
        "description": "Search speeches in the Swiss Parliament (both chambers, current legislature, Official Bulletin index): who spoke, in which council, when, for how long, on which item, with a link to the bulletin. Filter by speaker, business number, session or date. For what a whole session dealt with (dates, sittings, longest debates, final votes) use parliament_session."
      },
      {
        "name": "election_results",
        "description": "Swiss National Council elections from the Federal Statistical Office (open data): for the latest election (2023) party strength in per cent of the vote with the change since the previous election, seats, women elected and turnout for Switzerland, every canton and every commune (communes in the boundaries SLI uses; merged communes add up the votes of their former communes, recomputed exactly); plus party strength and seats since 1991 for Switzerland and the cantons. With commune (name or BFS number), canton (2-letter code) or neither (Switzerland). history=true adds the series since 1991. Parti"
      },
      {
        "name": "cantonal_parliament",
        "description": "Cantonal parliaments that publish members and every individual vote as open data: Basel-Stadt (data.bs.ch, CC BY 4.0, 100 seats, votes since 2012), Bern (ogd.parl.apps.be.ch, 160 seats, votes since Nov 2022) and Thurgau (data.tg.ch, CC0, 130 seats, votes since Oct 2022), daily: the members with parliamentary group, party, constituency, seat, year of birth, occupation, employer, own homepage, committees, declared interests and voting record in the current legislature (participation, agreement with the own group); plus the latest 200 votes with totals per group. With name: matching members in fu"
      },
      {
        "name": "canton_delegation",
        "description": "The members a Swiss canton sends to the Federal Parliament (its National Council seats and its one or two Council of States members), each with party, parliamentary group, seat number, year of birth and profile links; plus the delegation's count by group and by gender. Official source: Parliamentary Services, ws.parlament.ch (daily)."
      },
      {
        "name": "sunday_shopping",
        "description": "Sunday shopping and shop opening hours in the 26 Swiss cantons from the official law texts (re-checked weekly): how many Sundays all shops may open per year (federal Labour Act: at most four without a permit, each canton decides), who decides (canton or commune), weekday and Saturday closing times, Advent rules, tourist-place exceptions, the law with its URL and a verbatim quote. Shops in large stations, airports and motorway service areas may open every Sunday (federal law). With canton (2-letter code): that canton."
      },
      {
        "name": "immigration_reasons",
        "description": "Why foreign nationals move to Switzerland: immigration into the permanent foreign resident population (permits B, C and L of 12 months or more) by reason (employment within / outside quotas, family reunification, education and training, residence without employment, recognised refugees, hardship case and residence status after an asylum procedure, other), per year since 2008, for Switzerland, EU/EFTA vs third countries, the 26 cantons (canton of residence) and about 180 nationalities. Official source: State Secretariat for Migration SEM, foreigner statistics table 3-30 (ZEMIS). SEM totals diff"
      },
      {
        "name": "mortgage_rates",
        "description": "Swiss National Bank policy rate (current, since when, every change since June 2019), SARON, and the average interest rates Swiss banks publish for new mortgages at month end (SNB data portal): variable, fixed 2 / 5 / 10 years, SARON 3 years, with 0.25 quantile, median and 0.75 quantile across banks, monthly series since 2007; plus savings and pillar 3a rates. For rents the BWO reference rate applies (get_reference_rate). Information only, not financial advice."
      },
      {
        "name": "dog_tax",
        "description": "Yearly dog tax per Swiss commune from official sources where a canton has a uniform rate or publishes every commune: Vaud (cantonal CHF 100 plus each commune's tax), Lucerne and Aargau (CHF 120 everywhere), Basel-Stadt (CHF 160 / 150 / 120, each further dog double), Basel-Landschaft (each commune), Geneva (cantonal CHF 50 plus the commune's surcharge plus CHF 5 fees). With commune (name or BFS number): that commune; without: all covered communes. Other cantons are not covered."
      },
      {
        "name": "waste_fees",
        "description": "Waste, water and wastewater fees of Swiss communes. Official open data where the canton publishes every commune: canton of Zurich (all communes, since 2000: yearly basic fee converted to a 4-room flat and price per 35-litre bag) and Basel-Landschaft (bag price, basic fee per household, water and wastewater per m³). Plus, for about 380 larger communes in every canton, the federal Price Supervisor's yearly water, wastewater and waste fees for three model households (1, 3 and 4 persons), shown with its consent and its source note. CHF incl. VAT. With commune (name, BFS number or postcode): that c"
      },
      {
        "name": "how_many",
        "description": "Official answers to «How many … are there in Switzerland?» (the questions that reach Google Switzerland's top 10 every year): cantons, communes and districts (BFS commune register, per canton), permanent residents and foreign nationals (BFS STATPOP), Swiss abroad, cows, dairy cows and cattle (BFS farm structure survey), museums and visits, hydropower plants of at least 300 kW (BFE), hospitals and beds, main languages, taxpayers with net wealth over CHF 1 million (ESTV), foreign enclaves, the geographic centre, and protected AOP cheeses (no official count of cheese varieties exists). Each answe"
      },
      {
        "name": "imputed_rental_value",
        "description": "Abolition of the imputed rental value (Eigenmietwert, valeur locative) on owner-occupied homes in Switzerland: in force 1 January 2029 (Federal Council decision of 1 April 2026); timeline from the 2017 parliamentary initiative to entry into force, the changes for owners as the federal administration states them (maintenance and debt interest deductions, first-time buyer deduction, cantonal tax on second homes), and the official result of the linked vote of 28 September 2025 (FSO VoteInfo: Switzerland, every canton; with commune: that commune), the status of each canton on the optional tax on s"
      },
      {
        "name": "fire_danger",
        "description": "Forest fire danger and fire bans in Switzerland from FOEN open data (waldbrandgefahr.ch; credit «Source: FOEN»): for each of the 143 warning regions the danger level 1–5 and the canton's prevention measure 1–5 (no measures, warning, conditional ban, ban in and near the forest, absolute ban outdoors) with texts in DE FR IT EN and the date in force. With canton (2-letter code): that canton's regions and its highest danger and strictest measure; without: every canton summary. Bans issued by communes and fireworks rules (e.g. 1 August) are decided by cantons and communes and are not in this data."
      },
      {
        "name": "water_temperature",
        "description": "Water temperature in Switzerland: every FOEN river station measuring water temperature (raw data, latest reading, and where FOEN publishes it usual_c = median for this calendar day over the station's measuring years with usual_p25_c/usual_p75_c; credit «Surface waters data: Hydrology Division, FOEN»), the three river stations at the outflows of Lake Thun, Lake Geneva and Lake Lucerne (labelled as outflows, FOEN measures no lakes), Lake Zurich from the two City of Zurich water police stations with the last 14 daily means and the typical value for this calendar week (mean over all full years sin"
      }
    ],
    "profiled_at": "2026-11-09T20:01:18.299Z"
  },
  "unreachable": false,
  "payment_method": "open"
}