Définitions

Cette rubrique présente les définitions des concepts les plus souvent utilisés dans le système statistique public.

Définitions
Dernière mise à jour le : 13/08/2025
  1. 2
  2. A
  3. B
  4. C
  5. D
  6. E
  7. F
  8. G
  9. H
  10. I
  11. J
  12. K
  13. L
  14. M
  15. N
  16. O
  17. P
  18. Q
  19. R
  20. S
  21. T
  22. U
  23. V
  24. W
  25. Y
  26. Z

A

  1. Abortion or Pregnancy termination
  2. Accreditation of prior and experiential learning
  3. ACEMO survey / Labour Activity and Employment Conditions survey / ACEMO
  4. Acquisition of French nationality
  5. Acquisitions less disposals of non produced assets
  6. Acquisitions less disposals of valuables
  7. Active life expectancy
  8. Active population forecasts
  9. Active solidarity income / RSA
  10. Activity rate
  11. Activity rate (population census)
  12. Actual collective consumption / Actual collective final consumption
  13. Actual final consumption
  14. Actual final consumption of households
  15. Actual individual consumption / Actual individual final consumption
  16. Actual working hours as defined by the Employment survey
  17. Adjusted disposable income of households (national accounts)
  18. Administrative account (local finances)
  19. Administrative jurisdiction
  20. Administrative tribunal
  21. Age
  22. Age (1999 population census)
  23. Age (census survey)
  24. Aggregate
  25. Agricultural branch
  26. Agricultural employment
  27. Agricultural holding
  28. Agricultural means of production purchasing price index / IPAMPA
  29. Agricultural producer price index
  30. Agricultural rent tribunal
  31. Agricultural workers
  32. Agriculture
  33. Ambulatory care
  34. Amending finance law
  35. Analysis by function
  36. Analysis by industry
  37. Analysis by production
  38. Annual domestic migration rate
  39. Annual duration of work
  40. Annual work unit / AWU
  41. Apartment building
  42. Apparent migration balance / Apparent migration balance
  43. Apparent productivity of capital
  44. Apparent productivity of labour
  45. Appeal court
  46. Apprentice
  47. Aquaculture
  48. Arbitrable income
  49. Arrests for narcotics use
  50. Arrivals
  51. Artificialization of soils
  52. Asian countries
  53. Assets
  54. Associated commune
  55. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line / ADSL
  56. Audiovisual activities
  57. Authorised housing project
  58. Auto-entrepreneur
  59. Average duration of stay (hotels, camping)
  60. Average wage per capita
  61. Average years living in the dwelling (census survey)

C

  1. Canton
  2. Capital intensity
  3. Capital taxes
  4. Capital transfer receivable/payable
  5. Carbon footprint
  6. Carbon tax
  7. Carriage of goods
  8. Carriage of passengers
  9. Cash-flow
  10. Catches
  11. Categorial incomes
  12. Categories of France Travail registrants
  13. Census survey
  14. Centiles
  15. Central and Eastern European countries
  16. Central balance sheet
  17. Central town and suburd
  18. Centres with accommodation (minors)
  19. Centres without accommodation (minors)
  20. Certificat d'aptitude professionnelle / CAP
  21. Certificat de qualification professionnelle de branche / CQP de branche
  22. Certificat de qualification professionnelle interbranche / CQPI
  23. CFA franc zone
  24. Chained prices of the previous year (national accounts)
  25. Chain hotels
  26. Change in stocks
  27. Child (in the sense of household surveys)
  28. Child (in the sense of the census survey)
  29. Circular economy
  30. Circulating productive capital
  31. City
  32. Civil Engineering (TP) indices
  33. Civilian employment
  34. Civil justice
  35. Civil service
  36. Civil Solidarity Pact / Pacs
  37. Civil status registry
  38. Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose / COICOP
  39. Classification of outlays of producers by purpose / COPP
  40. Classification of professions and socioprofessional categories / Socio-professional categories
  41. Classification of socioprofessional categories / CSP
  42. Classification of the functions of government / COFOG
  43. Classification of the purposes of non-profit institutions / COPNI
  44. Classifications (activities, products)
  45. Clear-up rate
  46. Climate change
  47. Climate severity index
  48. Closed educational centre
  49. Closing balance sheet
  50. Coal
  51. Coefficient of variation / CV
  52. Coercive detention
  53. Collection unit
  54. Collective accommodation
  55. Collective consumption expenditure of general government
  56. Collective education centres for minors
  57. Collective investment funds / CIF
  58. Collective investment scheme / CIS
  59. Collective number of working hours (annual)
  60. Collective road transport
  61. Combined Nomenclature
  62. Commenced dwelling
  63. Commercial court
  64. Commercial handicraft
  65. Commercial margin rate
  66. Commercial Rent Index / ILC
  67. Common bird population index
  68. Commonwealth of Independent States / CIS
  69. Communication services
  70. Community (census survey)
  71. Community category (census survey)
  72. Community of municipalities
  73. Community service
  74. Commuting area of a functional area
  75. Company
  76. Company savings plan
  77. Company takeover
  78. Compensation of civil servants
  79. Compensation of employees
  80. Compensatory allowance for third parties
  81. Completed fertility
  82. Composite business climate indicator
  83. Composite index number
  84. Compte personnel de formation / CPF
  85. Conditional release
  86. Confidence interval
  87. Conseil en évolution professionnelle / CEP
  88. Consolidated profit
  89. Consolidated turnover
  90. Construction start
  91. Consumer goods industries
  92. Consumer price index / CPI
  93. Consumption of medical care and materials
  94. Consumption unit
  95. Continuing education and training
  96. Contribution to GDP growth (national accounts)
  97. Control rate
  98. Conurbation
  99. Conurbation community
  100. Convergence criteria (Maastricht Treaty)
  101. Conviction appearing on the criminal record
  102. Core inflation
  103. Corporate enterprise
  104. Corporate network
  105. Corporation
  106. Correctional court
  107. Cost, insurance, freight
  108. Cost-of-construction index / ICC
  109. Couple (in the meaning of living in a couple, census survey)
  110. Couple (in the sense of household surveys)
  111. Couple within a household (census survey)
  112. Court of Cassation
  113. Court of first instance
  114. Creations of establishments
  115. Crime
  116. Crime rate
  117. Criminal justice
  118. Current expenditure on medical care and materials
  119. Current external balance
  120. Current international cooperation
  121. Current prices - constant prices
  122. Current taxes on income and wealth
  123. Current transfers within general government
  124. Custodial sentence
  125. Custodial sentence (imprisonment)

E

  1. Early leaver from education and training
  2. Early neonatal mortality
  3. Early neonatal mortality rate
  4. Economic activity
  5. Economic and financial offence
  6. Economic sphere
  7. Economic territory
  8. Economic turning point indicator
  9. Ecotechnologies
  10. Educational measure (criminal)
  11. Education and training
  12. Effective rainfall
  13. Electoral list management unit / Ugle
  14. Electoral lists
  15. Electronic commerce
  16. Electronic data interchange
  17. Eligible for unployment insurance
  18. Employers' imputed social contributions
  19. Employers’ actual social contributions
  20. Employment (according to the International Labour Organization (ILO) definition)
  21. Employment (population census)
  22. Employment contract
  23. Employment estimates
  24. Employment in number of people
  25. Employment in the context of national accounts
  26. Employment on 31 December
  27. Employment rate
  28. Employment status
  29. Employment zone
  30. End-of-month job seekers
  31. Energy
  32. Energy consumption corrected for climate variations
  33. Energy self-sufficiency rate
  34. Enforcement judge
  35. Enrolment rate
  36. Ensign
  37. Enterprise
  38. Enterprise bankruptcy
  39. Enterprise birth
  40. Enterprise Categories
  41. Environmental tax
  42. Environmental tax revenues
  43. Epure: data from Urssaf, MSA and SIASP on employment and the total wage bill, used by INSEE
  44. Equipment
  45. Establishment
  46. Establishment classified Atout France
  47. Establishment creation rate
  48. Euro
  49. European Coal and Steel Community / ECSC
  50. European Economic Area / EEA
  51. European Economic Community / EEC
  52. European Free Trade Association / EFTA
  53. European Monetary System / EMS
  54. European size unit / ESU
  55. European Statistical System / ESS
  56. European Union / EU
  57. Eurostat
  58. Eurozone
  59. Examining magistrate
  60. Expectation of working life
  61. Expected years of schooling for a 2-year-old child
  62. Expenditure on cultural and recreational services
  63. Expenditure on employment
  64. Expenditure to protect the environment
  65. Export rate
  66. Exports
  67. Exports of goods
  68. Exports of goods and services
  69. Exports of services

I

  1. IMF debt / Debt as defined by the IMF
  2. Immediate placement centre
  3. Immigrant
  4. Imports of goods and services
  5. Imprisonment
  6. Inactive person
  7. Incidence rate
  8. Income from self-employment
  9. Income inter-decile ratio
  10. Independents
  11. Index
  12. Index database of natural persons
  13. Index of imported commodities
  14. Index of industrial production and import prices
  15. Index of orders in value received by industry
  16. Index of production prices for services to enterprises
  17. Index of the cost of labour in industry, construction and the tertiary sector
  18. Index of the revised cost of hourly labour – All employees
  19. Indirectly measured financial intermediation services / SIFIM
  20. Individual consumption expenditure of general government
  21. Individual or collective building
  22. Industrial economy
  23. Industrial or urban population zone / ZPIU
  24. Industrial production index / IPI
  25. Industrial property protection
  26. Industrial tribunal
  27. Industry
  28. Industry producing capital goods
  29. Industry producing intermediate goods
  30. Infant mortality
  31. Infant mortality rate
  32. Inflation
  33. Information and communications technologies / ICT
  34. Information-communication (sector)
  35. Information on planning permission and housing starts
  36. Initial Budget Law
  37. Initial income
  38. Innovation
  39. Inpatient care
  40. Input-output table
  41. Inserm
  42. Institute for Health Monitoring
  43. Institutional research and experimental development sectors
  44. Institutional sectors
  45. Institutional unit
  46. Institution diploma
  47. Insurance companies
  48. Intellectual property
  49. Intensity in carbon
  50. Inter-decile ratios
  51. Interest
  52. Interests
  53. Intermediate consumption
  54. Intermediate-sized enterprises / ETI
  55. Intermunicipal authority
  56. Internal classification number / NIC (SIRENE) / NIC
  57. International Labour Office / ILO
  58. International residence centre
  59. International Standard Classification for Education
  60. International standard industrial classification of all economic activities / ISIC
  61. Internet
  62. Investment expenditure (local finances)
  63. Investment income (local finances)
  64. Investment rate (business statistics)
  65. Investment rate (national accounts)
  66. In-work benefit
  67. IRIS
  68. Irreducible period
  69. Isolated municipality out of the poles influence
  70. Isolated town

N

  1. National Directory for the Identification of Natural Persons / RNIPP
  2. National Distance Learning Centre / CNED
  3. National economy
  4. National Enterprise and Establishment Register Database / SIRENE / Sirene
  5. National expenditure on the environment
  6. National Forest Inventory / IFN
  7. National framework for professional qualifications
  8. National healthcare expenditure
  9. National inter-scheme health insurance register / RNIAM
  10. Nationalisation, privatisation, "respiration"
  11. Nationality
  12. National Museum
  13. National Park
  14. National Registration Number
  15. National wealth (national accounts)
  16. Natural disaster
  17. Natural Increase
  18. Naturalisation
  19. Natural person
  20. Natural population surplus rate
  21. Natural resources
  22. Nature reserve
  23. Neither in employment nor in education or training / NEET
  24. Neonatal mortality
  25. Neonatal mortality rate
  26. Net banking income
  27. Net debt
  28. Net domestic product
  29. Net electricity consumption
  30. Net farm result
  31. Net fixed capital formation
  32. Net lending
  33. Net production of electricity
  34. Net social contributions
  35. Netsurfer
  36. Net wealth
  37. Network head company
  38. Network in services
  39. New orders index by value
  40. New vehicle registrations
  41. Nitrates
  42. Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics / NUTS
  43. Nomenclatures fonctionnelles
  44. Nominal and real effective exchange rates
  45. Non-accredited hotels
  46. Non-financial companies
  47. Non-financial market services
  48. Non-life insurance claims
  49. Non-market output / Non-market production
  50. Non-market services
  51. Non periurban rural municipality
  52. Non-profit institutions serving households / Secteur des institutions sans but lucratif au service des ménages / NPISHs
  53. Non residents
  54. Non-salaried employment
  55. Non-standard working hours / Non-standard working hours as defined by the Employment survey
  56. Non-tenured personnel
  57. North American Industry Classification System / NAICS
  58. North Sea states
  59. Number of consumer units in the tax household
  60. Number of habitable rooms
  61. Number of persons in the tax household
  62. Numerus clausus

P

  1. Paid working hours (annual)
  2. Parity and equality between women and men
  3. Partial unemployment insurance
  4. Part-time
  5. Part time employment rate
  6. Passenger-kilometre
  7. Patent
  8. Penal institution
  9. Penal servitude
  10. Perinatal mortality
  11. Perinatal mortality rate
  12. Period in which construction was completed (population census)
  13. Periphery of an urban area
  14. Periurban rural municipality
  15. Permanent Equipment Database / PED
  16. Personalized autonomy allowance
  17. Personal training leave / CIF
  18. Person charged
  19. Pesticides
  20. Place of work
  21. Plough lands
  22. PM10 and PM2.5 particles
  23. Police court
  24. Population
  25. Population census
  26. Population counted apart
  27. Population not in education
  28. Population projection
  29. Population pyramid
  30. Population without double counting (1999 census)
  31. Positive discrimination of school policy
  32. Post and telecommunication services
  33. Post-neonatal mortality
  34. Post of work
  35. Poverty gap
  36. Precautionary biomass
  37. Pre-engaged expenditure
  38. Premature mortality rate
  39. Pre-tax profit / loss
  40. Pre-trial detention
  41. Price indices for old housing stock
  42. Primary education
  43. Primary electricity
  44. Primary energy
  45. Primary income
  46. Primary sector
  47. Primitive budget
  48. Principal activity
  49. Priority Neighbourhoods
  50. Prisoner
  51. Prison population
  52. Private education
  53. Private landlords
  54. Private road transport
  55. Probation
  56. Procedure for immediate appearance before the court for minors
  57. PRODCOM Survey
  58. PRODFRA / French Production
  59. Producer cost indices for construction
  60. Producer price index / PPI
  61. Production (national accounts) / Output
  62. Production at basic price (agriculture)
  63. Production capacity usage rate
  64. Production excluding subsidies (agriculture)
  65. Productivity
  66. Productivity of resources
  67. Product of the manufacturing industry
  68. Products of the european community
  69. Professional Bachelor’s degree
  70. Professional certificates
  71. Professional fishing
  72. Professionalisation contract
  73. Profiling a group of companies
  74. Profitability
  75. Profit or loss for the year
  76. Property tort
  77. Prosecuting Chamber
  78. Protection of species
  79. Protection of the environment
  80. Proved reserves
  81. Provincial France
  82. Provisional central product classification
  83. Pseudo-canton
  84. Public deficit (national accounts)
  85. Public deficit and public debt ratios
  86. Public development aid / APD
  87. Public expenditure
  88. Public intercommunal cooperation establishment / EPCI
  89. Public landlords
  90. Public or ministerial officer
  91. Public prosecutor's office
  92. Public research sector
  93. Public-sector firm
  94. Public-sector SIRENE
  95. Public statistical department / SSP
  96. Public statistics
  97. Public sub-group
  98. Purchaser's prices
  99. Purchasing power of currency
  100. Purchasing power of wages
  101. Purchasing power parity / PPP / PPP
  102. Purchasing power standard

S

  1. S80 / S20 ratio
  2. Safety measure
  3. Sailors (employment)
  4. Salaried employment
  5. Sales area
  6. Sandwich contract
  7. Sanitary facility (census survey)
  8. Satellite account
  9. Satisfaction in life
  10. Saving rate
  11. Saving rate (local finances)
  12. Savings (national accounts)
  13. Scanner data
  14. School-leavers with a low level of education
  15. Scout centres (minors)
  16. Seasonal adjustment
  17. Secondary activity
  18. Secondary education
  19. Secondary energy
  20. Secondary sector
  21. Second home
  22. Section d'enseignement général et professionnel adapté / SEGPA
  23. Secure custody (justice)
  24. Self-financing rate
  25. Self-financing rate (business statistics)
  26. Semi-dense town (in the sense of the degree of urbanisation)
  27. Sensitive urban zone / ZUS
  28. Services
  29. Services to individuals
  30. Share of long-term unemployment
  31. Share of other income in the taxable income of households
  32. Share of pay and wages in the taxable income of households
  33. Share of pensions and annuities in the taxable income of households
  34. Share of profit in the taxable income of households
  35. Share of taxed households
  36. Short-term economic indicator
  37. Single electoral register
  38. Single employee delegation
  39. Siren number
  40. Siret number
  41. Slack work
  42. Small and medium enterprises / SME
  43. Small claims court
  44. Small Industrial Business Survey / EPEI
  45. Social assistance for accommodation
  46. Social benefits (national accounts)
  47. Social benefits (or social transfers)
  48. Social benefits other than social transfers in kinds
  49. Social Debt Repayment Contribution / CRDS
  50. Social rental market
  51. Social sector housing
  52. Social Security ceiling wage
  53. Social transfers in kind
  54. Sole proprietorship
  55. Sole proprietorship (national accounts)
  56. Solidarity allowance for the elderly
  57. Special court
  58. Specific Solidarity Allowance
  59. Spontaneous labour force
  60. Sports centre
  61. Sports federation
  62. Sports licence
  63. Sportspeople recognised by the Ministry
  64. Standard deviation
  65. Standard gross margin / SGM
  66. Standard gross output / SGP
  67. Standardised mortality index
  68. Standard of living
  69. State civil service
  70. State-convention moderate rent housing
  71. State debt
  72. Statistical block
  73. Statistical block database
  74. Statistical classification of products by activity in the EEC
  75. Statistical unit
  76. Statutory minimum
  77. Stay
  78. Still birth
  79. Structural indicator
  80. Structuring effect
  81. Student
  82. Student (population census)
  83. Subcontracting (industrial)
  84. Subsidiary corporation
  85. Subsidised contract
  86. Suburb
  87. Suburban area (in the sense of the degree of urbanisation)
  88. Suburban municipality of an urban area
  89. Summary economic classification / NES
  90. Supermarket
  91. Supplementary invalidity allowance
  92. Supplementary old-age allowance
  93. Survival table
  94. Suspension
  95. Sustainable development
  96. System for Information on Civil Servants

T

  1. Tangible investments
  2. Taxable income
  3. Tax at source
  4. Tax domicile
  5. Taxes less subsidies on products
  6. Taxes on income
  7. Tax household
  8. Tax income
  9. Taxon
  10. Tax system for micro-enterprises
  11. Temporary employment
  12. Temporary work contract (temporary work assignment)
  13. Tenured personnel
  14. Terms of trade
  15. Territorial authority
  16. Territorial correction
  17. territorial public service
  18. Tertiary Activities Rent Index / TARI
  19. Tertiary education
  20. Tertiary sector
  21. The cohort-size free retirement age
  22. The French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT)
  23. The general electoral roll
  24. The National Institute for Health Education and Illness Prevention / INPES / Inpes
  25. The penitentiary service for integration and probation / SPIP
  26. The REPONSE survey
  27. The turnover index for wholesale companies and miscellaneous services to enterprises
  28. Time series
  29. Tonne-kilometre
  30. Ton of oil equivalent / toe
  31. Total charges related to operation of the main residence
  32. Total domestic debt / EIT
  33. Total employment
  34. Total fertility rate
  35. Total financial charge borne by households for the occupation of their main residence
  36. Total general government liabilities (national accounts)
  37. Total healthcare expenditure
  38. Total period divorce rate
  39. Total period marriage rate
  40. Total population
  41. Total population (national accounts)
  42. Total primary energy consumption
  43. Total tax burden
  44. Tourism
  45. Tourist collective accommodation / Tourist accommodation
  46. Tourist hotels
  47. Tourist residence
  48. Trade
  49. Trademark
  50. Trading group
  51. Training speciality classification
  52. Transfers received (local finances)
  53. Transient pitch
  54. Transport and warehousing
  55. Transported passenger
  56. Travel
  57. Trip
  58. Turnover
  59. Turnover index
  60. Turnover index for enterprises in the retail and personal services sectors
  61. Turnover index for industry and construction
  62. Type of construction (census survey)
  63. Type of construction specific to French overseas departments (census survey)
  64. Type of family
  65. Type of Farming / TF