Agriculture and Food Ministerial statistical Office
The Ministerial Statistical Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty is made up of the Department of Statistics and Foresight Analysis (SSP) and Regional Departments of Statistical and Economic Information (SRISE).
The SSP falls under the remit of the Secretariat-General of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.
The SRISE are based in the Regional Directorates of Food, Agriculture and Forestry (DRAAF).
Main missions
The SSP, with support from the SRISE, produces, processes, analyses and disseminates statistical data regarding agriculture and fishing, agricultural and food industries, forestry and rural spaces.
In this way, the SSP carries out community surveys in its areas of competence for France and manages relationships with statistical bodies nationally and at the European (Eurostat) and international (notably the FAO) levels.
It steers the Network of Agricultural Accounting Information (RICA), which allows for detailed monitoring of the accounts of a sample of agricultural holdings, used to analyse the results of agricultural holdings depending on their areas of specialism.
It coordinates the activities of the SRISE and drives their actions to implement the national statistical programme.
The SSP is also responsible for fostering the development of ministerial considerations in the fields of economics, social issues and the environment. It is notably responsible for scheduling studies and their follow-up, and develops evaluation and forecasting work within the Ministry.
Statistical production
In France, the agricultural statistics services are responsible for carrying out community surveys in the agricultural, agri-food and forestry sectors. The SSP and the SRISE periodically carry out major statistical operations, such as the agricultural census.
More frequently, these services:
- conduct regular surveys with farmers, agri-food companies, agricultural cooperatives, logging facilities and sawmills, private forestry holdings and Local Authorities;
- use administrative forms, such as applications for subsidies linked to the Common Agricultural Policy or the national cattle identification database, thus lightening the burden of surveys;
- follow, via the Network of Agricultural Accounting Information (RICA), changes in farming income, of its components and its disparities at the national and regional levels, and by type of farm;
- establish, in line with INSEE, agricultural accounts as well as economic indices: the purchase price index for the means of agricultural production and the producer price index for agricultural products;
- establish, in the context of the annual agricultural accounts coherent agricultural production data at the departmental, regional and national levels;
- generate economic forecasts and agri-food supply balance sheets.
Studies
The SSP and SRISE regularly establish short-term diagnoses and carry out economic and sociological studies. These pieces of work have numerous aims, including to provide food for thought to the public actors charged with defining and conducting policies that affect these sectors.
Dissemination
The data, analyses and studies produced by the SSP and the SRISE are freely available on the Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletAgreste website.