Dispute barometer: How Switzerland disputes
The Touring Club Switzerland launches the first Swiss dispute barometer. The large-scale TCS legal protection study provides answers to what Mr. and Mrs. Swiss argue about, where in Switzerland the biggest disputants live and how differently men and women argue. In its first edition, the dispute barometer reflects dispute behavior in the area of traffic law.
Following the already well-known travel barometer, TCS is now publishing its dispute barometer for the first time. With the first survey of this kind in Switzerland, the largest mobility club in Switzerland underlines its many years of experience in the field of legal protection. The evaluations of the 1st dispute barometer are based on the TCS portfolio in traffic legal protection with around 263,000 policies. The data collected is based on TCS legal protection cases opened or closed in 2018.
Zurich and Geneva are the biggest disputants
In the Zurich and Geneva regions, almost four out of every hundred people have a legal dispute every year as a result of an incident on the road or in connection with their vehicle. Compared with the other five major Swiss regions, the frequency in the two metropolitan areas is around 50 percent higher. Disputes in the area of traffic rule violations occur almost twice as frequently among Zurich residents as in the Espace Mittelland or Ticino.
Older people argue less, men twice as often, women longer
If we look at the frequency of disputes relating to mobility with vehicles by age group, we see that this clearly decreases with increasing age. The age group of 18 to 35-year-olds, for example, is involved in legal disputes almost twice as often as the age group of over 66, with around four disputes per hundred people.
The gender analysis shows that men are responsible for two-thirds of all disputes. Accordingly, they argue twice as often as women. The discrepancy is particularly large in the case of traffic violations and traffic accidents; women are responsible for only ¼ of these disputes, while men account for the lion's share of 75 percent. Similarly, men's disputes cost an average of 25 percent more. Women, on the other hand, argue longer. On average, a legal dispute lasts almost a month longer for women than for men.
The first TCS dispute barometer on traffic legal protection can be downloaded at www.tcs.ch can be downloaded. Further dispute barometers with a focus on building legal protection and private legal protection will follow.
