Indices and time series news

11/22/2024 - Evolution in the monitoring of the price of hides and revisions to foreign currency indices

The Commodity Research Bureau has stopped updating the price of cattle hides on the Chicago market. As a result, the series now uses the data released by the IMF. Consequently, the price indices for hides in foreign currencies and in euros have been significantly revised, as have the related aggregate indices in foreign currencies and in euros (prices of agro-industrial materials, prices of industrial raw materials, all commodities index).
Furthermore, following the correction of an error in the inclusion of the prices of olive oil and lamb in foreign currencies, the foreign currency indices for oilseeds and meat have been revised, as have the aggregated foreign currency indices which depend on them: the foreign currency index of the prices of food commodities and, more marginally, the foreign currency index of all imported raw materials (excluding energy).

10/31/2024 – Evolution of the methodology for annual agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP)

Since 11/31/2024, the methodology for IPPAP indices has slightly evolved to improve the handling of missing/unreported prices. Items affected are hops, cereal and protein crop seeds, potato plants, wines and sheep milk. This leads to a revision of previously published indices based on the 2020 reference year related to these items, yet the impact on index trend is minimal at aggregated levels.

08/22/2024 – Stop rebroadcasting balance of payments series provided by the Banque de France

With effect from 08/01/2024, INSEE will no longer redistribute the balance of payments series provided by the Banque de France. You can find these data on Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletthe Banque de France's Webstat site or via Ouvrir dans un nouvel onglettheir API.

07/12/2024 - Construction of buildings indices, Civil engineering indices and miscellaneous indices for construction : update of the weighting structure and inputs of the FG index « Provision of grains »

From this publication onwards, the weighting structure and inputs of the FG « Provision of grains » index are updated in order to better take into account the varieties used in these activities.
The new detailed composition is detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for May 2024 and in the methodological note Composition détaillée des index divers en base 2010.
The monthly evolutions in May 2024 of the FG index are calculated from their new weight structure and are chain-linked to their April 2024 value in order to obtain the May 2024 value, without revising previously disseminated values.

06/28/2024 - New base year for production costs indices in construction

In accordance with European directives, production costs indices in construction are published in base and reference 100=2021 from 28 June 2024. All series in reference year 2015 are stopped and replaced by new series in base 2021. A correspondence table between the old and new series is available on webpage Correspondence tables . It contains the Idbank identifier in base 2015, the Idbank identifier in base 2021 and the wording in base 2015, which is identical to that in base 2021.

06/20/2024 - Annual national accounts series in the new 2020 benchmark revision

Each year, at the end of May, Insee disseminates updated macroeconomic data from the national accounts for the past three years (2021, 2022, and 2023) to account for new information received since the previous year. In May 2024, the national accounts will change their "benchmark" year to 2020. This benchmark revision allows for the recalibration of the entire series of national accounts using better sources and the modification of certain methods to better describe the functioning of the economy. Each benchmark revision in France results in a back-calculation of the national accounts from 1949 onwards.

06/07/2024 - Tourism indicators for residents of metropolitan France: series distribution resumes

Since the end of 2022, the series of indicators concerning tourism by residents of metropolitan France have no longer been published, due to changes in data collection and the methodological work required to extend the series without interruption. These series are now available from the end of 2022 until March 2024, the date of the last update. Dissemination is now resuming its usual updating rhythm. The source used is the Tourism Demand Survey (SDT), which is used to estimate the number of trips and overnight stays made by residents of metropolitan France in all accommodations in metropolitan France, whether market or non-market, in the French overseas departments and abroad.

05/20/2024 - Business climate survey in retail trade and trade and repair of motor vehicles: discontinuation of bi-monthly series on the changes in the workforce size

From May 2024, the bi-monthly series concerning the changes in the workforce size from the business climate survey in retail trade and trade and repair of motor vehicles are discontinued. These same series will remain published on a monthly frequency, as an extension of the existing series.

05/15/2024 - Buildings maintenance and improvement price index change base in May 2024

All series in reference 100=2015 published on the Insee website page « Retrieve indices and time series » are stopped and replaced by new series in base 2021. Buildings maintenance and improvement price index will be published in reference base 100=2021 from 31 May 2024. A correspondence table between old and new series is available on webpage « Correspondence tables ».

05/13/2024 - Services producer price indices change base in May 2024

In accordance with European directives, the services producer price indices will be published in reference and base 100 in 2021 from 31 May 2024. For further details, please consult the press release (in French).

04/12/2024 - Construction of buildings indices, Civil engineering indices and miscellaneous indices for construction: Modification of the TP08 index title and the indices composition tables

The new TP08 index heading is modified to include rural areas. The heading now reads as follow: “Road development works and maintenance in rural and urban areas”.
Furthermore, the identifiers for some inputs of the following indices are updated: TP03a, TP03b, TP05a, TP10c et TP12a. The new detailed composition are detailed in the methodological note “Composition détaillée des index TP en base 2010”.

03/29/2024 - The turnover index, the index of volume of sales in trade and the index of services production are rebased and now using 2021 as a reference year

Starting from the publication of the indices of January 2024, please note that in accordance with European regulation on business statistics, the turnover index, the index of volume of sales in trade and the index of services production will use 2021 as reference year.
The time series of the previous basis (base year 2015) are now interrupted and fixed to their last values.

03/26/2024 - Quaterly Maastricht general government debt: new base year

When the national accounts are published on 31 May 2024, INSEE will implement the transition to the new national account benchmark (base 2020). In anticipation of this publication, the levels of public debt will be published and notified to the European Commission as part of the excessive deficit procedure using the concepts of the base 2020. However, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) series used to calculate the public finance ratios as a percentage of GDP remains in the previous benchmark (base 2014) concept. The new benchmark national accounts will be published on 31 May. At that time, all the public finance ratios will be recalculated using a "base 2020" GDP.

03/15/2024 - Construction of buildings indices, Civil engineering indices and miscellaneous indices for construction

Modification of TP10a and TP13 index identifiers, modification of TP07b, TP08, and TP10f (former TP10a) index titles:
From the publication of indices for January 2024, 03/15/2024, onwards, index TP10a becomes TP10f and the heading becomes "Pipe works, sanitation and water supply with supply of multi-material pipes". Index TP13 "Carpentry and metal art works" becomes TP13a with the same heading. The heading of the TP07b index reads as follow: “Civil works, concrete and steel for maritime and river works ” and that of the TP08 index now reads as follow: “Roads development works and maintenance in urban areas”.
These changes neither affect the composition nor the calculation of these indices. It is only intended to better describe the asociated works.

Update of the composition of the TP01, TP02, TP03a, TP03b, TP04, TP05a, TP05b, TP06a, TP06b, TP07b, TP08, TP09, TP10b, TP10c, TP10d, TP10f, TP11, TP12a, TP12b, TP12c, TP13a and DRR02 indices:
From the publication of indices for January 2024, 03/15/2024, onwards:
- all civil engineering indices (except TP12d) and DRR02 indices are affected by the end of the tax advantage on GNR from January 1, 2024, with complete elimination on January 1, 2030. The GNR input of the Energy item has therefore been replaced by a "GNR pour TP" input which takes the tax increases into account.
- the weights and inputs of TP02, TP03b, TP04, TP07, TP08, TP09, TP10f, TP10b, TP10c, TP10d et TP11 indices are updated in order to better take into account the costs incurred in these activities. The new weights and inputs are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the January 2024 indices and in the methodological note "Composition détaillée des index TP en base 2010" and "Composition détaillée des index divers en base 2010".
In January 2024, the TP02, TP03a, TP03b, TP04, TP05a, TP05b, TP06a, TP06b, TP07b, TP08, TP09, TP10b, TP10c, TP10d, TP10f, TP11, TP12a, TP12b, TP12c, TP13aand DRR02 indices monthly evolutions are calculated on the basis of their new weight structure and are chain-linked to their December 2023 value in order to obtain the January 2024 value, without revising previously disseminated values.

Suppression of the TP14 index:
From the publication of indices for January 2024, 03/15/2024, onwards, Insee no longer releases the TP14 index “Underwater works by divers”.

Creation of two new indices TP10e and TP13b:
From the publication of indices for January 2024, 03/15/2024, onwards, Insee releases two new public works indices: TP10e "Pipe works, sanitation and water supply with supply of pipes in cast iron" and TP13b "Structural steelwork excluding supply of steel". These new indices are included in the calculation of the TP01 "All works General index", which is computed as a weighted average of the other civil engineering indices.
The composition of the various civil engineering indices are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for January 2024 and in the methodological note "Composition détaillée des index TP en base 2010".

Starting from the publication of the indices of January 2024, please note that in accordance with European regulation on business statistics, the turnover index, the index of volume of sales in trade and the index of services production will use 2021 as reference year.
The time series of the previous basis (base year 2015) are now interrupted and fixed to their last values.

03/05/2024 - New base year for the industrial production index and the index of the production in volume in construction

In accordance with the European Business Statistics Regulation (EBS Regulation) and its Implementing Regulation, the Industrial Production Index (IPI) and the Index of Production in Construction (IPVC) are now disseminated with reference 100 in 2021. All series in reference year 2015 released through the web page “Retrieve indices and time series (BDM)” of the Insee website have been stopped and replaced by new series in reference year 2021. A correspondance table between the old and new series is available at page “Correspondance tables web page”.
The weights of these two indices are updated annually, and the indices are chain-linked. The weights taken into account for the period from January 2021 are thus based on value added data for 2021 taken from the national accounts. Taking these new weights into account leads to revisions of the indices over the same period.
The sample of products whose production is monitored for the purposes of calculating the industrial production index is reviewed by 1/7ths every year. The entire sample is thus renewed or extended over a seven-year cycle. The aim of this operation is to ensure that the indices are robust and to adapt them to economic or technical developments, in particular by tracking products that have recently appeared on the market and removing from the sample those whose production has become very low. The series for which the sample was reviewed this year are recalculated on the new product perimeter over the last three years, 2021 to 2023, which represents an additional source of revision for the corresponding series. Before that date, the profile of the indices is broadly unchanged.
The seasonal and working day adjustment (SA-WDA) models have also been revised over the recent past to improve the quality of the index.
For more information.

02/29/2024 - From now on, agricultural price indexes are disseminated in base and reference year 2020=100

The base and reference year of the index of the price of agricultural outputs (index of producer prices of agricultural products, IPPAP) and inputs (indices of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production, IPAMPA) are changing in accordance with European directives. They are now published in base and reference 100 in 2020. The series in base and reference 100 in 2015 are stopped in December 2023, month of their last dissemination. Correspondence tables between old and new series are available at the Correspondence tables web page. The methodological information concerning these base year and reference changes are available on the Web page of agricultural price indexes monthly publication (flag: Documentation in French).

02/16/2024 - Imported commodities price indices : correction of an error in the conversion of the price of salmon into euros

Following the correction of an error in the conversion of the price of salmon into euros in the publication of the Informations Rapides "Prices of oil and imported raw materials" of 16 February 2024, all the values of the seafood price index in euros have been significantly revised, as have those of the aggregate indices that depend on it by construction: the index of food commodity prices in euros and, more marginally, the index of all imported commodity prices in euros (excluding energy). The previously published data can be found under the 'Revision' tab of each series.

02/09/2024 - Industrial producer price indices and agricultural producer price indices change base in February 2024

In accordance with European directives, the industrial producer and import price indices will be published in reference and base 100 in 2021 from 29 February 2024. The producer prices of agricultural products (IPPAP) and the purchase prices of inputs for agricultural production (IPPIAP) will be published with reference base 100 in 2020 from the same date. For further details, please consult the press release (in French).

10/24/2023 - End of the quarterly business survey in the building craft sector in 2024

Given that this survey’s response rate has been continuously deteriorating across the years, the quarterly business survey in the building craft sector will not be renewed in 2024. Indeed, its weak response rate significantly diminishes its accuracy and thus the reliability of its results. The present edition of the Informations Rapides dedicated to the economic outlook in the building craft sector published today is thus the last one. The corresponding indexes are also stopped, while still remaining available in the INSEE database. Additionally, the outlook in the building construction sector keeps on being monitored, mainly through the business survey in the building construction sector, which is conducted among companies with at least 11 employees, and whose response rate remains at a good level.

06/16/2023 - Changes in the production of labour cost indices in the first quarter of 2023

From the release of the first quarter of 2023 and in accordance with European regulations, the base year for the labour cost index is 2020: the average of the four 2020 quarterly indices, weighted by the volume of work (total number of hours paid for each quarter), is equal to 100. It should be noted that, as a result of the health-related restrictions, the volume of work in certain sectors, such as accommodation and food services, varied significantly during 2020. In this case, the simple (unweighted) average of the quarterly indices for 2020 may differ significantly from the weighted average, i.e. from 100.
This change of base year has an impact on the levels of the indices, but not on the changes of the indices (quarter-on-quarter as well as year-on-year changes). However, it has been accompanied by a revision of the seasonal adjustment method, which may marginally affect quarterly changes since 1998. Finally, some employers’ social contributions taken into account in the labour cost index have been updated with the results of the French part of the 2020 European Labour Cost Survey. This leads to slight upward revisions in average annual changes of the labour cost index over the period 2017 to 2019 (around 0.1 point each year).

06/15/2023 - Composition of BT47, EV3 and EV4 indices updated

From the publication of index for April 2023, on 06/15/2023, the weights and inputs of BT47 “Electricity”, EV3 “Creation of greens” and EV4 “Maintenance of greens” indices are updated in order to better take into account the costs incurred in these activities. The new weights and inputs are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the April 2023 indices and in the methodological notes “Detailed composition of BT indices in 2010 base” and “Detailed composition of various indices for construction in 2010 base”.
In April 2023, the BT47, EV3 and EV4 indices monthly evolution are calculated from their new composition and are chain-linked to their March 2023 value in order to obtain the April 2023 value, without revising previously disseminated values.

06/06/2023 - Change in method and estimate of departure rates for personal purposes

As of 2022, the method for collecting and estimating departure rates for personal purposes has changed to improve the statistical quality of the information produced. These changes make comparisons with previous years impossible. As a result, this new series cannot continue the previous one.

03/28/2023 – Imported commodities price indices : correction of a base error on some series

Indices 010002086, 010002087, 010751335, 010002089, 010002090, 010002091, 010002092, 010002093, 010002094, 010002095, 010002096, 010002097, 010002098, 010002099, 010002100 and 010002101 were previously based on the month of January 2010 and not on the whole of 2010 as stated. This error has been corrected in the publication of 26 August 2022, covering the month of July 2022.
The data as published until July 2022 can be found in this document.

03/24/2023 – New reporting of production costing breakdowns in construction

From the publication of costs of production indices in construction for the quarter quarter 2022, the 03/24/2022, changes in construction input costs are reported separately for buildings on the one hand and public works on the other.
The aggregates relating to Buildings encompass the “Construction of residential and non-residential buildings” group 412 of the NACE Rev. 2 classification on the one hand, and the “Specialised construction activities” (division 43 of the NACE Rev. 2 classification) insofar as they relate to buildings, on the other.
The “Public works” aggregates cover both the eponymous division of the NACE classification (42 “Civil engineering”) and the “Specialised construction activities” (division 43 of the NACE classification) insofar as they relate to civil engineering works.
Alongside this new reporting, six new cost index series are released, with the following headings: “Machinery for structural work in building construction” (010761830), “Machinery for finishing work in building construction” (010761831), “Miscellaneous costs of construction” (010761832), “transport in building construction” (010761833), “transport in public works” (010761834) and “waste treatment in public works” (010761835).

03/03/2023 – Methodological changes in the industrial production index and volume production in construction index

The industrial production index series are subject to an annual review process over a five-year cycle. The aim is to guarantee that the indices remain robust and to adapt them to economic or technical developments, in particular by including the monitoring of new products and by eliminating those whose production has become very low. The results of the fifth wave of renovation, which covers about one fifth of the indices, are included in this publication. The renovated series are backcast to January 2020, which may lead to revisions since that date. The seasonal and working day adjustment (SA-WDA) models have also been revised over the recent past to improve the quality of the index, and the annual weights have been updated.
At the same time, the methodology of the construction output index has undergone two important changes:
(i) It is now calculated using data from nominative social declarations (DSN). This may cause revisions, especially for the last three years;
(ii) The classification used is now NAF rev.2. Three divisions are available (F41, F42, F43), with values starting in 2005. The series on total construction (raw, SWDA, WDA) begin in 1990 (date unchanged).

02/22/2023 - Temporary suspension of the dissemination of business creation series at departmental level

Since January 1, 2023, formalities for registering a business must be carried out on the Electronic Business Formalities Counter. This major change temporarily weakens the monthly monitoring of business births, in particular due to a change in the registration delays in the Sirene register. For this reason, the dissemination of business creations series at the departmental level is temporarily suspended.

12/15/2022 - Composition of BT08 index updated.

From the publication of index for October 2022, 12/15/2022, onwards, the weights and inputs of BT08 “Plaster and prefabricated plaster” index are updated in order to better take into account the costs incurred in these activities. The new weights and inputs are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the October 2022 indices and in the methodological note « Detailed composition of BT indexes in 2010 base ».
In October 2022, the BT08 index monthly evolution is calculated from its new composition and is chain-linked to its September 2022 value in order to obtain the October 2022 value, without revising previously disseminated values.

10/14/2022 - The annual change of the Housing Rent Reference Index (RRI) is capped

In accordance with Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletArticle 12 of the 2022-1158 Act on Emergency Measures for the Protection of Purchasing Power of 16 August 2022, the annual change of the housing rent reference index may not exceed 3.5% between the third quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2023.
By way of derogation, it may not exceed 2.5% in the collectivities governed by article 73 of the Constitution (overseas regions and departments) and, in accordance with Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletprefectorial order R20-2022-10-11-00012, it may not exceed 2.0% in Corsica between the third quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2023.
From the third quarter 2022, Insee publishes four new series : On one side, the housing rent reference index in the collectivities governed by article 73 of the Constitution (010760509)and the related annual change (010760510), and on the other side, the housing rent reference index in Corsica (010760507) and the related annual change (010760508). The values of two other series (001515333 and 001515334) are still applicable on the rest of the national territory.

09/15/2022 - Building, civil engineering and various indices for construction

Revision of BT18a and BT19b index headings :
From the publication of index for July 2022, onwards, the word “wood” is added to the headings of BT18a and BT19b indices in order to clarify these headings. The heading of the BT18a index now reads as follow: “Inside wood joinery” and that of the BT19b index now reads as follow: “Outside wood joinery”. These changes neither affect the composition nor the calculation of these indices. It is only intended to better reflect their actual composition.

Update of the composition of the BT16b, BT18a, BT19b and BT54 indices :
From the publication of index for July 2022, onwards, the weights and inputs of BT16b “Wood frame”, BT18a “Inside wood joinery”, BT19b “Outside wood joinery” and BT54 “Wood framework” indices are updated in order to better take into account the costs incurred in these activities. The new weights and inputs are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the July 2022 indices and in the methodological note « Composition détaillée des index BT en base 2010 ». In July 2022, the BT16b, BT18a, BT19b and BT54 indices monthly evolutions are calculated from their new compositions and are chaine-linked to their June 2022 value in order to obtain the July 2022 value, without revising previously disseminated values.

Update of the composition of TP08 and TP09 indices :
From the publication of index for July 2022, onwards, the weights and inputs of the "Energy" item of TP08 “Roads development works and maintenance” and TP09 “Making and implementation of mixes” indices are updated in order to better take into account the costs incurred in these activities. The new weights and inputs are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for July 2022 and in the methodological note « Composition détaillée des index TP en base 2010 ». In July 2022, the TP08 and TP09 indices monthly evolutions are calculated based on their new weights and inputs and are chain-linked to their June 2022 value in order to obtain the July 2022 value, without revising the previously disseminated values.

08/26/2022 - Raw materials price indices and international prices : stopping and reopening of series

The monitoring of rapeseed oil and hide prices has changed. Indeed, following a breakdown in distribution, series 010753753 and 010753751 were stopped. Series 010002029 and 010002051, whose sources are now available again, have therefore been reactivated.

07/29/2022 - Operations on goods and services: adding two series

To contain the rise in fuel prices, a 15 cent per litre tax-free rebate is applied since April 1st 2022. In national accounts, this rebate is accounted as a subsidy on products (D319) on coke and refined petroleum products (A17-C2 in the QNA nomenclature).
As this type of subsidy is new for this product, two new time series (in value and volume) has been created to take account of the new subsidy. In value, the series is equal to the estimate of the amount of the tax-free subsidy. In volumes chained at previous year prices, the estimates is made by applying to the tax base the tax rate in force during base year, 2014, which 0 in that case, as the subsidy didn’t exists at the time : the series is thus 0 for the whole period. Those amounts are taken into accounts in all aggregates and accounting equation.

06/20/2022 - Business failures : adding variable

The EUROSTAT_DEFAILLANCES_ENTREPRISES are added to the Business failures.

06/15/2022 -  Index PMR and TSH : updating of the "materials" items

From the publication of index for April 2022, 06/15/2022, onwards, the « materials » items of the PMR « Road marking products » and TSH « Road marking works » index composition are updated in order to better take into account the cost evolution of the business sector covered. The new compositions are detailed in the notice published in the Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for April 2022 and in the « Methodological note detailed composition of various indices for construction in 2010 base ».
The PMR and TSH index evolutions in April 2022 are calculated from their new composition and are applied to their March 2022 value in order to obtain the April 2022 value, without revising the previously disseminated values.

06/09/2022 -  Methodological changes of the Quarterly Employment Estimates

For this publication of payroll employment in the first quarter of 2022, the Quarterly Employment Estimates are revised in the past, more than usual at this time of year, as they benefit from several methodological changes genrating several revisions.
These various revisions are detailed in the methodological note associated with this publication.

06/02/2022 -  Rebasing of the year-end employment series

For the release of the final 2019 Employment Estimates, the year-end employment series are released in 2018 base. This means that end-2018 levels are recalibrated to those measured in the statistical source from employer and self-employed returns. The previous estimates were released in 2007 base. They had been extended between 2008 and 2018 by chaining evolution rates. Over the years, a slight discrepancy with the level of the detailed source may have occurred. The entire series has therefore been revised for the entire period. The methodology of this rebasing and the associated revisions, in level and in evolution, are detailed in the Insee Results devoted to the Annual Employment Estimates.
In addition, new series are now available here. The end-of-year employment series calculated in base 2007 are discontinued, but remain accessible and are linked to the new series in base 2018.

05/24/2022 - Outlook survey in good-producing industries : new monthly series

Since May 2022, the questions on the obstacles to production are asked each month, after having been asked every three months from April 1991 to April 2022. These monthly series encompasse both collection periods: from April 1991 to April 2022 the data gathered in January have been extended to February and March, and so on for the other months of the year; since May 2022, the series is directly supplied by the monthly gathered results. The corresponding quarterly series will temporarily further be supplied.
From the definitive data of April 2020, the non-response correction mode has been modified compared to the usual method. For more information about the method used : Business and consumer tendency surveys of May 2020: between lockdown and lockdown exit.

05/16/2022 - Dissemination of new series about the tourist demand survey

As of May 2022, INSEE publishes new series on tourism by residents of metropolitan France. The source used is the tourist demand survey (SDT), which allows to estimate the number of trips and nights spent by residents of metropolitan France in all accommodation in metropolitan France, whether commercial or non-commercial, in the overseas departments and abroad. This survey, under the responsibility of the Direction Générale des Entreprises until 2019, is carried out by an external service provider for INSEE since January 1, 2020.

04/21/2022 - Outlook survey in services : adding series

112 series regarding investment are adding in the Outlook survey in services.

04/21/2022 - Outlook survey in good-producing industries : adding series

114 series regarding investment are adding in the Outlook survey in good-producing industries.

04/15/2022 - New quaterly series on business births.

Starting with the release of the Informations Rapides outlining the results for March 2022 and the dissemination of business births for the first quarter of 2022, the quarterly series are now calculated and disseminated according to the new scheme introduced from the calculation of business births in January 2022.
The quaterly series have been recalculated since January 2012. The series of enterprise births calculated according to the previous method have been stopped, but remain available. A correspondence table between old and new series is available at the Correspondence tables web page.

03/31/2022 - Turnover index in industry and construction: annual series stopped

The annual series Turnover index in industry and construction ; Base 2015 - Grouped and detailed business sectors will no longer be updated from March 2022.
They can be calculated by taking the average of the 12 months of a year from the corresponding monthly indices.

03/23/2022 - Change in the formula for calculating the Commercial Rent Index (CRI)

From the date of fourth quarter 2021, in accordance with the Decree n°2022-357 of 14 March 2022 changing the Decree n°2008-1139 of 4 November 2008 pertaining to the national quaterly Commercial Rent Index, the index of turnover in retail trade is no longer used in the formula for calculating the Commercial Rent Index.
Additional information are available in the documentation on methodology.

03/08/2022 – Death and mortality : adding a variable

The SERIE_ARRETEE variable is added to the "Death and mortality" family to stop the series 001745178.

03/04/2022 – Methodological changes in the industrial production index

Since the move to the new basis 2015 in March 2018, the industrial production indices (IPI) are reviewed at the rate of one fifth of the series each year. The aim is to improve the relevance of the IPI with regards to economic and technological evolutions, especially by including emerging products or removing declining products. The fourth annual review is implemented with this publication in March 2022. The coverage of the industrial production index is improved for the manufacture of wearing apparel and for the manufacture of other electrical equipment. A new series is now available: the manufacture of sports goods. The adjusted series have been backcasted from 2019, which can generate revisions on these indices up to that date.
In parallel with this modification, seasonal and working-day adjustment (SA-WDA) models have been reestimated on the recent past, in order to improve the quality of the index, and weights have been updated.

02/23/2022 - Redesign of enterprise births calculation

Starting with the release of the Informations Rapides outlining the results for January 2022, enterprise births have been calculated according to a revised scheme. This new method of calculation broadens the scope of companies taken into account, with the aim of better covering the scope of business statistics. This results in particular in an increase in the level of business creation.
All the series have been recalculated on this new scope since January 2012. Backcasting of the national sectorial series has been carried out since 2000. The series of enterprises births calculated according to the previous method have been stopped, but remain available. A correspondence table between old and new series is available at the Correspondence tables web page.

02/18/2022 - Average retail prices : series stopped

13 series are stopped in average retail prices.

02/11/2022 - Collective tourist accommodation occupancy survey : revision of the method of missing data imputation

As of January 2020 for outdoor accomodations and for Other Short-Stay Accomodations (OSSA), missing data for non-sampled or non-responding accomodations are imputed according to a new method, using econometric models based on the characteristics of the accomodations. This new method of non-response imputation leads to slightly reduce the total number of overnight stays, but has no impact on quarterly trends. In order to be able to calculate any evolution with newly calculated data, Insee has recalculated 2019 data. These backcast series are used in the Information Rapid publications from the 2019 first quarter. A correspondence table between old and new series is available at the Correspondence tables web page.

02/02/2022 - Monthly results on new passenger car registrations : new field

From the results relating to January 2022, the registration data is calculated on a new field, consistent with the fleet data published by the SDES. The series have been recalculated on this field since January 2011.The geographic scope is now France, and no longer metropolitan France. All registration data is taken into account, with the exception of provisional registrations and temporary transit.

01/24/2022 - Outlook survey in goods-producing industries : series review

The series on the economic motivation of investments were slightly reviewed in January 2022.

01/20/2022 - Outlook survey in the building construction industry : reopening series

36 series regarding the barriers to hiring (percentage of responses) are reopened in the Outlook survey in the building construction industry.”

01/20/2022 - Outlook survey in services : reopening series

96 series regarding the barriers to hiring (percentage of responses) are reopened in the Outlook survey in services.

01/20/2022 - Outlook survey in good-producing industries : reopening series

4 series regarding the barriers to hiring (percentage of responses) are reopened in the Outlook survey in good-producing industries.

01/07/2022 - Localised unemployment rates : adding one serie

The serie 010754822 "Unemployment rates localized by region - France excluding Mayotte" is added to the Localised unemployment rates.

12/16/2021 - Outlook survey in the building construction industry : adding series

17 séries oncerning the general wage outlooks (balance of opinion) are added to the Outlook survey in the building construction industry.

12/16/2021 - Outlook survey in services : adding series

6 series concerning the general wage outlooks (balance of opinion) are added to the Outlook survey in services.

12/08/2021 - Enterprises births : adding two variables

The EUROSTAT CREATIONS ENTREPRISES and SERIE_ARRETEE variables are added to the Enterprises births.

12/08/2021 - Equipment ratio by medical speciality : adding a variable

The SERIE_ARRETEE variable is added to the Equipment ratio by medical speciality.

11/17/2021 - Building, civil engineering and various indices for construction

From the publication of index for August 2021, 11/17/2021, onwards, the weight structure of the index TP06a « Large-scale marine dredging » is updated. The renovation of this index intends to better take into account the producer cost structure of the business sector covered.
The new weight structure is detailed in the notice of French Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for August 2021 and in the methodological note « Composition détaillée des index TP en base 2010 ».
The TP06a index evolution in August 2021 is calculated from the new weight structure and is applied to the July 2021 value in order to obtain the August 2021 value, without a revision of the previously disseminated values.

10/21/2021 - Business tendency surveys

Since October 2021, new qualitative questions on investment have been introduced in the tendency surveys in industry and in services, on a quarterly, half-yearly or annual basis, as part of the harmonisation of European business tendency surveys. At the same time, the quaterly survey on industrial investment was stopped and several questions have been removed in the various business surveys, in order to alleviate the statistical response burden on companies.
The balances of opinions resulting from the new question on economic uncertainty felt, asked since April 2021 in the surveys in industry, services, building industry and retail trade, are published from this month onwards.
The composite indicator of the business climate in the construction industry has been overhauled and backcast: it is published again as of October 2021.
Finally, the selection of balances of opinion included in the computation of the French business climate has been revised at the occasion of tendency business surveys of October 2021. This selection has been realigned on the balances selected in sectoral business climates, including the new composite indicator in the building industry.

08/23/2021 - Consumer price index : Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana

The health crisis linked to COVID-19 continues to affect the quality of indices in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. For these departments, this lower quality didn’t allow to publish some indices which are usually disseminated. An estimate of the index for May, based largely on the imputation of unobserved prices, was posted temporarily, by mistake, on the insee.fr website.

06/22/2021 - COICOP coding error in CPI dataflow: end of incident

All series from the IPC-2015 dataflow have been corrected.

06/17/2021 - COICOP coding error in CPI dataflow

Some wrong codes have been detected in the IPC-2015 dataflow: for instance, the series 001765050 has the value ‘011’ for the variable COICOP2016 instead of ‘11’.
Almost 80 series are concerned. Corrections are to be made as soon as possible.

06/16/2021 - Index PMR and TSH

Since the publication of index for March 2021, the index PMR "Road marking products" and TSH "Road marking works" are updated monthly.

02/26/2021 - Values rectification for an agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP)

An error has disrupted the calculation and dissemination of the seasonally adjusted monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) in base 2015=100. Especially for indices below:
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - General index Idbank 010538794
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - General index, except fruit and vegetables Idbank 010538795
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - Animals and animal products Idbank 010538799
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - Animals Idbank 010538800
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - Adult cattle Idbank 010538801
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - Beef cattle Idbank 010538803
- Monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) - Young cattle Idbank 010538804

The December 2020 indices were corrected. These corrections will lead to an upward revision of the overall IPPAP by +0.7 percentage points in the February 26th publication.

01/14/2021 - Building indices, Civil engineering indices and Various indices for Construction: revision of July, August and September 2020 values and updating of the weight structure of the FV "Provision of plants" index since October 2020

Insee has exceptionaly revised the values of the "all employees"- index of hourly labour cost for the second quarter 2020, on the occasion of the 8 January 2021 release.
Building indices, Civil engineering indices and Various indices for Construction are consequently revised. As the labour cost in the index is taken into account with a three months lag, the July, August and September 2020 values are revised, on the occasion of the 14 January 2021 publication.

Moreover, since the publication of index for October 2020, the 14 January 2021, the weight structure of the FV "Provision of plants" index has been updated. This update intends to better take into account the producer costs structure of the business sectors covered. The new detailed weight structure is stated in the notice of French Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for October 2020. The FV index evolution, calculated from the new weight structure, is chained on its September 2020 value.

12/03/2020 - Values rectification for an agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP)

Technical problems have disrupted the calculation and dissemination of the series of monthly agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) in base 100 in 2015 of trees for "Nursery Plants" (Identifier 010538674), concerning the September 2020 value. The serie was corrected on December 3rd 2020. This correction will lead to an upward revision of the overall September IPPAP by 0.2 percentage points at the time of publication on 23 December.

11/27/2020 - The backcasted service producer prices indices in base 100=2015 are disseminated

The services producer price indices in base 100=2015 have been backcasted and are now disseminated with a time depth that can go back as far as the first quarter of 2005.

10/30/2020 - Monthly survey in retail trade and in trade and repair of motor vehicles: updating the values of three series

Following a problem with updating the series, three series were recalculated and updated on 10/29/2020, for values prior to December 2018.
The series concerned are the following: 001786559 - 001786560 - 001580428.

09/16/2020 - Business births’ statistics: correction of the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships

Insee has identified an error in business births’ statistics since 2015. This error relates to the sharing of births between conventional sole proprietorships and self-managed micro-entrepreneurs, without affecting the total number of births and the breakdown between companies and sole proprietorships.
Actions have been taken to ensure proper monitoring of micro-entrepreneurs’ registrations from early 2021, with correction of time series since January 2015. Until then, the sharing of business births between micro-entrepreneurs and conventional sole proprietorships will no longer be disseminated.
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07/30/2020 - Relative weights of the total supply of industrial products price index of petroleum bitumen have been updated from May 2020

In order to take into account the recent changes in the structure of bitumen consumption in France, INSEE has updated the weights for French production and imports, composing the monthly domestic bitumen supply price index.
This change is taken into account from the calculation of May 2020.

04/01/2020 - Dissemination of series about vehicle registrations and about construction of residential and non-residential buildings

Due to the current sanitary crisis, Data and Statistical Studies Department (SDES), depending Ministry for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, is not able to update index and chronological series as originally planned.
Series about vehicle registrations and about construction of residential and non-residential buildings, will be disseminated as soon as possible.
More information are available on Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletSDES website.

03/20/2020 - Miscellaneous indices for construction: new indices on road restraint systems

From the release of the indices for December 2019, on March 20th 2020 onwards, INSEE publishes new miscellaneous indices for construction: DRR01 “Supply of road restraint systems” and DRR02 “Supply and installation of road restraint systems”. There are published in reference 2010 (average 2010 = 100).
The detailed compositions of these indices are stated in the notice of French Official Journal referring to the release of the indices for December 2019.
idbank: 010607767 (DRR01) et 010607768 (DRR02)

03/10/2020 - Reviewing of the methodology of the the industrial production indices

Since the swap to the new basis 2015 in march 2018, the industrial production indices (IPI) are reviewed at the rate of one fifth of the series each year. This annual update will make it possible to improve the relevance of the IPI with regards to the evolution of technologies and production processes, by adapting the way of measuring such product, by including emerging products or, on the contrary, removing old products. The second annual review is implemented with this publication in march 2020. It has improved slightly the coverage of the industrial production index and has lead to introduce two new indices: manufacture of other products of wood; manufacture of articles of cork, straw and plaiting materials and manufacture of jewellery and related articles. The adjusted series have been backward-reviewed from 2017. This can generate revisions on indices, even if they are rather moderate at an aggregated level. In parallel with this modification, Seasonnal and working-day ajustment (SA-WDA models) are reestimated on a sub-period (since 2005) to adjust indices on the recent past, in order to provide improved fit and better robustness.

02/07/2020 - The use of scanner data for calculating the Consumer Price Index

From January 2020 on, the French CPI uses scanner data on the scope of manufactured food products, of cleaning products and of the products for personal care sold in supermarket and hypermarket in metropolitan France.
The huge number of data improves the quality of the index. In 2019, an impact study was carried out. This impact on the all-item index is relatively low (-0.08 points at most on the index; 0.1 points in certain months on the annual or monthly change). However, scanner data impacts are higher on classes for which the use of scanner data is more important.
Scanner data makes it possible to follow two additional Coicop sub-classes (02.1.3.3 beers with low alcohol content or without alcohol and 02.1.3.4 beer-based beverage). Contrariwise, some average prices will no longer be published, because of conceptual differences in the computing of average prices with the scanner data (use of the daily purchased quantities and better tracking of special offers).

01/27/2020 - New series on the level of training of job seekers registered at Pôle emploi

Since 2018Q2, the measurement of the job seekers’ level of training has been disturbed by the implementation by Pôle Emploi of the online service "skills profile" for job seekers.
Without affecting the number of people registered at Pôle emploi, this change however modified their distribution by level of training. It would thus have led to a 4 point downward revision of the part of job seekers with a training level below the baccalauréat (from 56% to 52% after the setting of the “skill profile” service) registered in categories A, B and C.
From now on, the series by level of training are published according to this new measure, and begin in 2018Q1 instead of 1996Q1 for the series published until then. The “historical” series, according to the methodology prior to the implementation of the “skill profile” service, remain available (over the period from 1996Q1 to 2018Q1).

01/17/2020 - Dissemination of quarterly business births series

Due to a technical problem, dissemination of quarterly business births series has been temporarily interrupted. These series should be available at the beginning of the next week. Until then, you can refer to monthly business births series.

01/16/2020 - Civil engineering indices: a new index on Heating and cooling networks with supply of pipes

From the release of the indices for October 2019, INSEE publishes a new index within civil engineering indices, TP10d “Heating and cooling networks with supply of pipes”. This new index is included in the calculation of index TP01 General Index of civil engineering which is a weighted average of the other civil engineering indices. The detailed composition of civil engineering indices is explained in the section Sources, Idbank: 010605983.

Value rectification for the civil engineering indice – TP03A in September 2019

Due to a material error, the value of civil engineering indice TP03A - Large-scale excavation works – Base 2010 (idbank 001710988) in September 2019 published the 18/12 at 12:00 am was incorrect. The exact value of 111.0 is now published in the database of time series.

Imported raw material indices‘s July data

July data were accidentaly released last month. This incomplete data are now replaced by permanent data.
IdBank of concerned data set are available in the attached document.

Online publication of series on barriers to hiring in business tendency surveys in industry,
the building industry and services

Questions on barriers to hiring have been added to the quarterly business tendency surveys in industry, the building industry and services from January 2017 onwards. Series from this module of questions will be published on 20 June 2019 on the section “Indices and time series” on the occasion of the publication of the June 2019 Conjoncture in France. They will then be published online at the same time as the other business tendency survey indicators and accessible in the sets of series of each of the three surveys concerned: Outlook survey in goods-producing industries, Outlook survey in the building construction industry and Outlook survey in services.

05/24/2019 - Minor rounding corrections of some DEFM series

The values of 15 series (of wich idbanks are listed below) have been slightly modified.
010598491 - 010598489 - 010598466 - 010598475 - 010598464 - 010598446 - 010598442
010598444 - 010598400 - 010598392 - 010598382 - 010598378 - 010598380 - 010598435 - 010598437

04/26/2019 - Change in the frequency of job seekers' data

As from April 2019, job seekers' data disseminated will become quarterly. Until now, the dissemination was monthly.

03/08/2019 - Reviewing of the methodology of the industrial production indices

Since the implementation of the new basis 2015 in March 2018, the industrial production indices (IPI) are reviewed at the rate of one fifth of the series each year. This annual update will make it possible to improve the relevance of the IPI with regards to the evolution of technologies and production processes, by adapting the way of measuring a product, by including emerging products or, on the contrary, removing old products. The first annual review is implemented with this publication in march 2019. It has significantly improved the coverage of the industrial production index and has lead to introduce three new indices : Industrial manufacture of bread and fresh pastry, Manufacture of other articles of paper and paperboard and Pre-press and pre-media services. The adjusted series have been backward-reviewed from 2015. This can generate revisions on indices, even if they are rather moderate at an aggregated level. In parallel with this modification, SA-WDA models have been reestimated on a sub-period (since 2005) to adjust indices on the recent past, in order to provide improved fit and better robustness (SA-WDA models were until now estimated on the whole period, i.e. 1990 to 2019).

03/01/2019 - Changes of time of the serie of new vehicles registrations broadcast

As of the release of February values, series of new passenger cars registrations (raw data and SA-WDA data) will be published on our website the day of the embargo lifting at 8:45 am (and not at 18:00), simultaneously with the broadcast made by SDES.

01/22/2019 - Changes in the serie on contribution rate and guaranteed minimum wages

From the merger of schemes Agirc and Arrco on 1st January 2019, employer and employee contributions for the supplementary pension schemes have disappeared and have been replaced by contributions Agirc-Arrco, according to the wage bracket. Bracket 1 applies on the portion of the wage that is less than 1 cap, and bracket 2 on the portion of the wage that ranges between 1 and 8 caps. The AGFF contribution also disappeared and two new contributions appeared : the overall contribution balance (CEG) and the technical contribution balance (CET).

09/06/2018 - The Notaries-INSEE are rebased in reference 100=2015

The Notaries-INSEE second-hand dwellings prices indices are now published in a new version. Their elaboration is based on a revised and improved method of calculation. The scope has been extended to the overseas departments and is now France (excluding Mayotte). This new method is applied from the revised publication of Q1 2018. The reference is from now on the average in 2015 (against T1 2010 until the publication of T1 2018).

07/27/2018 - Values rectification for some agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP)

Some technical problems have disrupted the dissemination of some seasonally adjusted series of agricultural producer price indices (IPPAP) base 100 in 2015 : « Cut flowers » (Identifier 010538797) et « Roses » (Identifier 010538798). They were rectified on July 27th 2018.

07/09/2018 - The backcasted production price indices and importation price indices in base 100 = 2015 at basic prices are disseminated

The production price indices and importation price indices for industrial products at basic prices have been backcasted on a long run so that long-lasted series are now disseminated, up to January 1980 for some of them.

06/29/2018 - Starting with the results of the first quarter of 2018, the field of quaterly local employment estimates is extended to all employees and cover overseas departments (excluding Mayotte).

Compared to the past publication, farm employment is added, as well as the civil service and private individuals who are employers (including those in the non-market sectors). Now, the level of regional employment can be separated between the public and the private sector based on the legal category of employers.

06/26/2018 - Producer costs indices for construction are rebased in reference 100=2015

Producer costs indices for construction are rebased from June 26th 2018, release date of 2018Q1 results. Series in base and reference 100=2010 released through the web page Retrieve indices and time series (BDM) of Insee web site have been stopped and replaced by new series in reference 100=2015. The aggregated weights of producer costs for construction have been updated from the scheme of Elaboration of annual statistics of companies (scheme ESANE 2015 reference).
A correspondence table between base 2010 series and base 2015 series is available at the Correspondence tables web page. Additional information (only in French) are available on the flag Documentation of the Informations Rapides and on the web page Sources and methods of this indicator.

06/14/2018 - The national accounts have published a new 2014 benchmark revision

Over the period covered by the national accounts (1949-2017), data is now available for the base period 2014. The most important revisions concern transactions of the national economy with the rest of the world, as well as property income between resident agents (businesses, households, public administrations, etc.) and between resident agents and the rest of the world. Series for the base period 2010 on the page Retrieve indices and time series (BDM) are stopped, and replaced by new series in base period 2014. Additional information is available in the tab “Data sources and methods”.

06/12/2018 - Update of some production price indices in industry in December 2017

The online release of specific production price indices in industry did not occur properly for the month of December 2017. Some indices were not published, while unsuitable values for five "market price" indices (idbanks: 010536479, 010536462, 010534598, 010534014 and 010534013) were wongly disseminated. All the values of the indices concerned have been corrected now and are available on the insee.fr website via the page Retrieve indices and time series (BDM).

05/31/2018 - Service production price indices are rebased in reference 100=2015

Service production price indices are disseminated in reference 100=2015 from May 31th 2018, release date of 2018Q1 results. Series in reference 100=2010 released through the web page Retrieve indices and time series (BDM) of the Insee web site have been stopped and replaced by new series in reference 100=2015. Additional information (only in French) are available on the flag Documentation of the Informations Rapides and on the web page Sources et méthodes of this indicator. A correspondence table between base 2010 series and base 2015 series is available at the Correspondence tables web page.

05/31/2018 - Buildings’ maintenance and improvement work price indices are rebased in reference 100=2015

Buildings’ maintenance and improvement work price indices are rebased from May 31th 2018, release date of 2018Q1 results. Series in base and reference 100=2010 released through the web page Retrieve indices and time series (BDM) of Insee web site have been stopped and replaced by new series in reference 100=2015.
Simultaneously to this rebasing, buildings’ maintenance and improvement work price indices have been fitted to the “Classification des Produits Française (CPF révisée 2.1)”, French nomenclature that stems from European Classification of Products by Activities, and the scope of buildings’ maintenance and improvement work price indices has been extended from dwellings to all buildings, residential and non residential. From now on, 30 indices are released, instead of ten in the former 2010 base. Because of perimeter changes, there is no way to establish a correspondence between series of the former base and series of the new base.
Additional information (only in French) are available on the flag Documentation of the Informations Rapides and on the web page Sources and methods of this indicator.

03/30/2018 - The turnover index, the index of volume of sales in trade and the index of services production are rebased and now using 2015 as a reference year

Starting from the publication of the indices of January 2018, please note that in accordance with European directives, the turnover index, the index of volume of sales in trade and the index of services production will use 2015 as reference year. The time series of the previous basis are now interrupted and fixed to their last values.

03/09/2018 - Industrial production index is rebased and now using 2015 as a reference year

Starting from the publication of the indices of January 2018, please note that in accordance with European directives, the industrial production indices will use 2015 as reference year. The industrial production indices will switch from a fixed base index to an annual chained-linked index, implying some revisions in the past. The time series of the previous basis are now interrupted and fixed to their last values.

03/06/2018 - From now on, agricultural price indexes are disseminated in reference year 2015=100

The index of the price of agricultural outputs (index of producer prices of agricultural products, IPPAP) and inputs (indices of purchase prices of the means of agricultural production, IPAMPA) haved changed their base and reference year in accordance with European directives. They are now published in base and reference 100 in 2015. The series in base and reference 100 in 2010 are stopped in December 2017, month of their last dissemination. The methodological information concerning these base year and reference changes are available on the Web page of agricultural price indexes monthly publication (flag: Documentation in french).

Production price indices in the industry will be rebased 2015=100 in February 2018

In accordance with the European directives, producer and import price indices will be disseminate in reference and base 100=2015 from February 28th 2018, release date of January 2018 results. Additional information (only in French) about changes of the base year indices is available on the flag documentation of the Informations Rapides of these indicators.

05/12/2017 - Civil engineering indices: a new index on fiber optic networks

From the release of the indices for February 2017, on May 12th 2017, INSEE publishes a new index within civil engineering indices, TP12d “Fiber optic networks”. The heading of the index TP12a has been modified, it is now entitled “Energy and communication networking except fiber optics”. Its calculation method remains unchanged.

The composition of the civil engineering indices is explained at:

03/01/2017 - Price indices for maintenance and improvement of existing dwellings: values rectification for Q3 2016 and Q4 2016

Some technical problems have disrupted the dissemination of some Price indices for maintenance and improvement of existing dwellings: 4321A - Electricity; 4322A - Sanitary plumbing; 4322B - HVAC engineering; 4331Z - Plaster works; 4332A - Wood and PVC joinery; 4332B - Metal joinery, locksmithing; 4334Z - Painting, wall coating, resilient flooring; 4391 - Roofing activities and 4399C - Masonry, reinforced concrete, tiling for Q3 2016 and Q4 2016. They were rectified in the BDM on February 28th, 2017.

01/31/2017 - Revision of some Turnover indices

Turnover indices (total and exports) have been recalculated in the building of ships and floating structures to take better into account exceptional deliveries of ocean liners in 2016. The result is unusual revisions in the shipbuilding sector but also by aggregation in manufacture of other transport equipment and in the manufacturing industry.

The 12 following series are involved:

001772044, 001772406, 001772407, 001772408, 001772419, 001772420, 001772421, 001772463, 001772464, 001772465, 001772497, 001772600.