851000 Pre-primary education
A six-digit type of NOGA 2025, in division 85, Education.
Where it sits
- Section
- Q Education
- Division
- 85 Education
- Group
- 851 Pre-primary education
- Class
- 8510 Pre-primary education
- Type
- 851000 Pre-primary education
Its name in four languages
- Deutsch
- Kindergärten und Vorschulen
- Français
- Enseignement pré-primaire
- Italiano
- Istruzione prescolastica
- English
- Pre-primary education
What it includes
- pre-primary education, which is defined as the initial stage of organised instruction designed primarily to introduce very young children to a school- type environment, that is, to provide a bridge between the home and a school-based environment.
- In Switzerland, pre-primary education (kindergarten) is normally included in the compulsory school program. In a few cantons of German-speaking Switzerland, there is no obligation to send children to kindergarten, or only an obligation of one year. Nevertheless, the vast majority of children in these cantons attend kindergarten also for two years. In several German-speaking cantons, municipalities can choose to run a first learning cycle (called «Grundstufe» or «Basisstufe»), which combines kindergarten and the first one or two years of primary school. In French-speaking Switzerland, the two kindergarten years are usually included in what is called «cycle 1» or «cycle primaire 1», which lasts for four years. The canton of Ticino offers in addition to the two compulsory years of kindergarten, an initial, voluntary year for children from age three.
What it excludes
- child day-care activities, see 889100
NOGA 2008 codes it continues
Since the switch to NOGA 2025, companies coded under these NOGA 2008 types belong under 851000, in the share the BFS measured in its business register (BUR).
| NOGA 2008 | Share moved to 851000 |
|---|---|
| 851000 | 100% |
| 889100 | 0% |
What a NOGA code is, and how to find a company's code
Company counts cover the 145,068 of 782,904 active companies in the commercial register that Prospex has coded so far, from their registered purpose and website, so they are a floor. Geneva is 93% coded, because its cantonal register publishes a code per company; the other cantons 11% so far. They are Prospex's codes, not the code the BFS assigns in its business register (BUR). Codes, labels and notes: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS), NOGA 2025, through the I14Y interoperability platform and the KUBB coding tool.