Federal Statistical Office
NOGAuto business-activity code suggestions
Switzerland's statistics office put NOGAuto into production for business classification
Problem
Register coders needed consistent business-activity classifications.
Approach
NOGAuto applied supervised learning to business descriptions. Coders entered a description and received suggested NOGA codes through a dedicated interface.
Results
No published figures
Takeaway
The application supported staff assigning codes; no measured time saving was disclosed.
Categories
- Industry
- Public sector
- Business function
- Internal work and knowledge management
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Predictive analytics and ML
- Adoption
- Built in-house
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
[1]Federal Statistical Office, CNAI20 Jan 2026
The project register identified NOGAuto as a completed project in production. It recorded the actual project start as 2020.
Full details are in the original sources.
Added 1 Nov 2026 · Updated 1 Nov 2026