Art. 37 Ordinance of November 7, 2007, on Financial Equalization and Burden Compensation (OFIBC) - Burden Index and Determinative Excessive Burdens

The indicators are standardized and grouped using principal component analysis to form a burden index. A municipality's burden index is equal to the first standardized principal component of the standardized indicators. The calculation is regulated in Annex 14.

The burden index of a canton corresponds to the weighted average of the burden indices of its municipalities. The permanent resident population of the municipalities serves as the weighting factor. The canton's burden index is rounded to the third decimal place.

The burden index of a canton is used to calculate a per capita burden coefficient of the canton. This coefficient is equal to the difference between the canton's burden index and that of the canton with the lowest index.

The determinative excessive burdens of central cities borne by a canton are equal to the difference, weighted by the permanent resident population, between the per capita burdens of this canton and the corresponding average per capita burdens of all the cantons. When a canton has per capita burdens lower than the average, its determinative excessive burdens are null.

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