Can one provide accounts for the social state of the Nation?
André Vanoli
A recurring demand does exist for aggregated quantitative data in the main fields of social life. However, national accountants do not support attempts to derive an aggregated monetary estimate of eco...
Éditorial du Courrier des statistiques n°117-119
Serge Darriné
Éditorial du Courrier des statistiques n°117-119...
INSEE's Permanent Demographic Sample (EDP)
Christine Couet
For nearly forty years, INSEE has been collecting socio-demographic information on a sample of individuals representative of the population of metropolitan France. At present, the Permanent Demographi...
Studying fertility in France with the help of the Permanent Demographic Sample Survey
Isabelle Robert-Bobée
The Permanent Demographic Sample Survey («Echantillon démographique permanent»: EDP) is a panel that contains longitudinal data collected since 1968 from census surveys and vital statistics sources, a...
Ten years of statistical studies in France - 1995-2004
Claude Poulain, Pierrette de Fouchier et Marie-Mila Grissonnanche-Tartière
How many statistical surveys are there in France? What are they about? Who conducts them? What are their frequencies, the size of their samples and questionnaires, the types of population they study, ...
Geographic origins of individuals in French population censuses
Olivier Monso et Thibaut de Saint Pol
In the nineteenth century, France introduced political and legal criteria aimed at establishing who was or was not a member of the national community. To this end, questions on geographic origins were...
Augustin Girard et Odile Timbart
Les dépenses culturelles des administrations publiques : administrations centrales et collectivités locales...
Statistics at the Ministry of Culture and Communication: an interview
Philippe Chantepie et Jeannine Cardona
Statistics at the Ministry of Culture and Communication: an interview...
Can economic and social well-being be measured?
Jean Gadrey
A major debate is taking place between statisticians and development players on the relevance, limits and weaknesses of synthesised or «composite» indicators that are intended to reflect human develop...
The pawnbroker business in France: a good cyclical indicator of the economic situation of households
Michel Fansten
The activity levels for Crédit Municipal de Paris (CMP), the leading French organisation of pawnbrokers, provides an amplified reflection of short-term movements of the French economy. From this persp...
Statistics and research in France: some perspectives
Patrice Bertail
The purpose of this document is to briefly present some of the current characteristics of statistical research in France. A much more detailed view of the whole may be obtained by reading «La Statisti...
The contribution of statistics to experimental research in industry and the financial markets
Charles-Albert Lehalle
In both the financial markets and industrial sectors, the research engineer and the physicist are today immersed in an environment that gives them ever more data that is ever more precise. Whether it ...
Savoir compter, savoir conter - Épisode n° 5 - Plan d'un article : inversez la pyramide !
Jean-William Angel
Le plan en pyramide inversée répond aux principales caractéristiques de notre lecteur : son temps est limité ; il cherche des résultats, récents, et n'est pas ou peu intéressé par la méthode. L'articl...
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Index des auteurs et sommaires - 2002-2006
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Index des auteurs et sommaires - 2002-2006...