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INSEE resources

INSEE budget

Funding for INSEE is included in the fiscal allocations to the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry. The INSEE budget covers two categories of expenditures: (1) an allowance to cover basic operating requirements, i.e., personnel, equipment, building acquisition and maintenance, supplies, and printing expenses; (2) special funding for non-current outlays such as special surveys. In 2011, the budget totaled about EUR434 million.

INSEE is authorized to receive the proceeds from the sale of its products and from work undertaken in partnership with other organizations.

Personnel categories

Statuses

INSEE personnel are government employees (agents de l'État). They comprise civil servants (fonctionnaires) and non-tenured employees:

  • Civil servants occupy permanent positions and are subject to the general civil-service code and related legislation. They belong to categories (corps), each subject to special regulations: administrateurs, attachés, contrôleurs, and adjoints administratifs.
  • Non-tenured employees work under contract for INSEE as agents contractuels (in the majority of cases) and agents vacataires.

The INSEE also employs freelance researchers who are public authority agents responsible for collecting information in the field. The network of researchers includes approximately one thousand agents employed to carry out household and price collection surveys.

Categories

INSEE personnel comprise three categories:

  • Category A (senior administrative and "design" staff): inspecteurs généraux, administrateurs, attachés, and chargés de mission.
  • Category B (intermediate-level management): mostly contrôleurs, recruited by competitive examination at the baccalauréat level (high-school leavers) or selected from employees in category C; trained at CEFIL.
  • Category C: mostly "administrative assistants" (adjoints administratifs), including secretaries.
INSEE personnel on January 1, 2012 %
by categories:
Catégory A 28 
Catégory B 44 
Catégory C 28 
by offices:
Head Office 25 
Regional Offices 69 
National Computing Centers 6 
Total 5,275 people

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