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Declaration by the INSEE Director General

For many years, the French statistical service has paid particular attention to output quality. Well before the European Statistics Code of Practice came into existence, legislators, INSEE and Ministerial Statistical Offices already took steps to guarantee the quality of the statistics they produced (using sound methodological tools, writing quality reports, displaying metadata, etc.).

Having completed in 2005 our Code of Practice reinforced this orientation while stressing the need for better informing users about the quality of statistics.

This quality rubric describes the rules, methods and resources that enable official statistics to meet quality requirements as well as possible. Such a description draws direct inspiration from the fifteen principles and related indicators from the European Statistics Code of Practice.

This quality section thus provides a clear presentation of how well implemented our official statistics quality commitments are. I hope it will provide users with all the material needed to better grasp and fruitfully use our statistics.

INSEE Director General

Jean-Luc Tavernier