Switzerland Consumer Confidence
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Source: SECO Swiss Consumer Sentiment long series; OECD quarterly fallback and SECO releases when needed.
Source description: Swiss consumer sentiment index from SECO, transformed relative to SECO's long-term average. The refresh uses SECO's machine-readable long series when available, with OECD quarterly history and official SECO release pages as a fallback from 2018 onward.
Table ID: macro_economics/consumer/ch_consumer_sentiment
Key findings:
- Switzerland consumer sentiment remains weak, pointing to a cautious household-demand backdrop for discretionary furniture and home-related purchases.
- Structurally, the indicator is still close to the lower end of its recent range, so the broader sentiment backdrop remains fragile.
- The latest directional signal is negative, indicating that consumer momentum has weakened rather than stabilized.
Latest data:
| date | value |
|---|---|
| 2025-05-01 | -31 |
| 2025-06-01 | -26 |
| 2025-07-01 | -27 |
| 2025-08-01 | -34 |
| 2025-09-01 | -31 |
| 2025-10-01 | -31 |
| 2025-11-01 | -28 |
| 2025-12-01 | -25 |
| 2026-01-01 | -24 |
| 2026-02-01 | -24 |
| 2026-03-01 | -37 |
| 2026-04-01 | -34 |
Methodology: Consumer Confidence Methodology
Switzerland Consumer Confidence gives furniture-market analysts a timely view of Swiss household mood and major-purchase caution. It helps retailers, suppliers, importers and boards assess whether consumers are becoming more willing or more hesitant about spending on sofas, beds, kitchens, storage, mattresses and home furnishings.
Switzerland is not part of the standard Eurostat consumer-confidence table used for most EU pages, so Furnilytics uses SECO's national Swiss Consumer Sentiment as a proxy aligned to the EU-harmonised style. The indicator is especially useful because Swiss demand combines high purchasing power, a strong currency, imported assortments, urban housing constraints and cross-border price comparisons.
Market Context
Switzerland is a high-value furniture market where household confidence still matters, even when income levels are strong. Large home-related purchases are often linked to moving, renovation, replacement cycles and confidence in personal finances, so sentiment can explain why demand strengthens or pauses before it is visible in annual market-size indicators.
The Swiss market also has a distinct currency and border dimension. A strong franc can support imported assortments and euro-area price comparisons, while cross-border shopping and multilingual retail regions make consumer mood more nuanced than in a single-currency domestic market.
This page uses SECO's Swiss Consumer Sentiment as a national-source proxy for the EU-harmonised consumer-confidence view. For market planning, read it with Switzerland Furniture Consumer Market Size, Switzerland Furniture Retail Market Size and CHF/EUR Exchange Rate to connect household mood, realised demand and currency-sensitive market conditions.
