Définitions

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

Définitions
Dernière mise à jour le : 17/09/2025
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  3. A
  4. B
  5. C
  6. D
  7. E
  8. F
  9. G
  10. H
  11. I
  12. J
  13. K
  14. L
  15. M
  16. N
  17. O
  18. P
  19. Q
  20. R
  21. S
  22. T
  23. U
  24. V
  25. W
  26. Y
  27. 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. Adult of a family (as defined by the household-family analysis)
  22. Age
  23. Age (1999 population census)
  24. Age (census survey)
  25. Aggregate
  26. Agricultural branch
  27. Agricultural employment
  28. Agricultural holding
  29. Agricultural means of production purchasing price index / IPAMPA
  30. Agricultural producer price index
  31. Agricultural rent tribunal
  32. Agricultural workers
  33. Agriculture
  34. Alternating residence
  35. Ambulatory care
  36. Amending finance law
  37. Analysis by function
  38. Analysis by industry
  39. Analysis by production
  40. Annual domestic migration rate
  41. Annual duration of work
  42. Annual work unit / AWU
  43. Apartment building
  44. Apparent migration balance / Apparent migration balance
  45. Apparent productivity of capital
  46. Apparent productivity of labour
  47. Appeal court
  48. Apprentice
  49. Aquaculture
  50. Arbitrable income
  51. Arrests for narcotics use
  52. Arrivals
  53. Artificialization of soils
  54. Asian countries
  55. Assets
  56. Associated commune
  57. Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line / ADSL
  58. Audiovisual activities
  59. Authorised housing project
  60. Auto-entrepreneur
  61. Average duration of stay (hotels, camping)
  62. Average wage per capita
  63. 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
  28. Child (as defined by the household-family analysis)
  29. Child (in the sense of household surveys)
  30. Child (in the sense of the census survey)
  31. Child of separated parents
  32. Circular economy
  33. Circulating productive capital
  34. City
  35. Civil Engineering (TP) indices
  36. Civilian employment
  37. Civil justice
  38. Civil service
  39. Civil Solidarity Pact / Pacs
  40. Civil status registry
  41. Classification of Individual Consumption by Purpose / COICOP
  42. Classification of outlays of producers by purpose / COPP
  43. Classification of professions and socioprofessional categories / Socio-professional categories
  44. Classification of socioprofessional categories / CSP
  45. Classification of the functions of government / COFOG
  46. Classification of the purposes of non-profit institutions / COPNI
  47. Classifications (activities, products)
  48. Clear-up rate
  49. Climate change
  50. Climate severity index
  51. Closed educational centre
  52. Closing balance sheet
  53. Coal
  54. Coefficient of variation / CV
  55. Coercive detention
  56. Collection unit
  57. Collective accommodation
  58. Collective consumption expenditure of general government
  59. Collective education centres for minors
  60. Collective investment funds / CIF
  61. Collective investment scheme / CIS
  62. Collective number of working hours (annual)
  63. Collective road transport
  64. Combined Nomenclature
  65. Commenced dwelling
  66. Commercial court
  67. Commercial handicraft
  68. Commercial margin rate
  69. Commercial Rent Index / ILC
  70. Common bird population index
  71. Commonwealth of Independent States / CIS
  72. Communication services
  73. Community (census survey)
  74. Community category (census survey)
  75. Community of municipalities
  76. Community service
  77. Commuting area of a functional area
  78. Company
  79. Company savings plan
  80. Company takeover
  81. Compensation of civil servants
  82. Compensation of employees
  83. Compensatory allowance for third parties
  84. Completed fertility
  85. Complex household (in the sense of census surveys)
  86. Complex household (in the sense of household surveys)
  87. Composite business climate indicator
  88. Composite index number
  89. Compte personnel de formation / CPF
  90. Conditional release
  91. Confidence interval
  92. Conseil en évolution professionnelle / CEP
  93. Consolidated profit
  94. Consolidated turnover
  95. Construction start
  96. Consumer goods industries
  97. Consumer price index / CPI
  98. Consumption of medical care and materials
  99. Consumption unit
  100. Continuing education and training
  101. Contribution to GDP growth (national accounts)
  102. Control rate
  103. Conurbation
  104. Conurbation community
  105. Convergence criteria (Maastricht Treaty)
  106. Conviction appearing on the criminal record
  107. Core inflation
  108. Corporate enterprise
  109. Corporate network
  110. Corporation
  111. Correctional court
  112. Cost, insurance, freight
  113. Cost-of-construction index / ICC
  114. Couple (as defined by the household-family analysis)
  115. Couple (in the meaning of living as a couple, census survey)
  116. Couple (in the sense of household surveys)
  117. Couple within a household (census survey)
  118. Court of Cassation
  119. Court of first instance
  120. Creations of establishments
  121. Crime
  122. Crime rate
  123. Criminal justice
  124. Current expenditure on medical care and materials
  125. Current external balance
  126. Current international cooperation
  127. Current prices - constant prices
  128. Current taxes on income and wealth
  129. Current transfers within general government
  130. Custodial sentence
  131. 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. Parent (as defined by the household-family analysis)
  3. Parity and equality between women and men
  4. Partial unemployment insurance
  5. Part-time
  6. Part time employment rate
  7. Passenger-kilometre
  8. Patent
  9. Penal institution
  10. Penal servitude
  11. Perinatal mortality
  12. Perinatal mortality rate
  13. Period in which construction was completed (population census)
  14. Periphery of an urban area
  15. Periurban rural municipality
  16. Permanent Equipment Database / PED
  17. Personalized autonomy allowance
  18. Personal training leave / CIF
  19. Person charged
  20. Pesticides
  21. Place of work
  22. Plough lands
  23. PM10 and PM2.5 particles
  24. Police court
  25. Population
  26. Population census
  27. Population counted apart
  28. Population not in education
  29. Population projection
  30. Population pyramid
  31. Population without double counting (1999 census)
  32. Positive discrimination of school policy
  33. Post and telecommunication services
  34. Post-neonatal mortality
  35. Post of work
  36. Poverty gap
  37. Precautionary biomass
  38. Pre-engaged expenditure
  39. Premature mortality rate
  40. Pre-tax profit / loss
  41. Pre-trial detention
  42. Price indices for old housing stock
  43. Primary education
  44. Primary electricity
  45. Primary energy
  46. Primary income
  47. Primary sector
  48. Primitive budget
  49. Principal activity
  50. Priority Neighbourhoods
  51. Prisoner
  52. Prison population
  53. Private education
  54. Private landlords
  55. Private road transport
  56. Probation
  57. Procedure for immediate appearance before the court for minors
  58. PRODCOM Survey
  59. PRODFRA / French Production
  60. Producer cost indices for construction
  61. Producer price index / PPI
  62. Production (national accounts) / Output
  63. Production at basic price (agriculture)
  64. Production capacity usage rate
  65. Production excluding subsidies (agriculture)
  66. Productivity
  67. Productivity of resources
  68. Product of the manufacturing industry
  69. Products of the european community
  70. Professional Bachelor’s degree
  71. Professional certificates
  72. Professional fishing
  73. Professionalisation contract
  74. Profiling a group of companies
  75. Profitability
  76. Profit or loss for the year
  77. Property tort
  78. Prosecuting Chamber
  79. Protection of species
  80. Protection of the environment
  81. Proved reserves
  82. Provincial France
  83. Provisional central product classification
  84. Pseudo-canton
  85. Public deficit (national accounts)
  86. Public deficit and public debt ratios
  87. Public development aid / APD
  88. Public expenditure
  89. Public intercommunal cooperation establishment / EPCI
  90. Public landlords
  91. Public or ministerial officer
  92. Public prosecutor's office
  93. Public research sector
  94. Public-sector firm
  95. Public-sector SIRENE
  96. Public statistical department / SSP
  97. Public statistics
  98. Public sub-group
  99. Purchaser's prices
  100. Purchasing power of currency
  101. Purchasing power of wages
  102. Purchasing power parity / PPP / PPP
  103. Purchasing power standard

R

  1. Railway transport
  2. Real estate activities
  3. Real estate development
  4. Recent (Buyer, mortgager, first-time mortgager, first-time buyer, moved)
  5. Recession
  6. Recipients of unemployment insurance benefits
  7. Recycling
  8. Reference person of a family
  9. Reference person of the household
  10. Reference person of the household - complementary processing (population census) / Reference person of the household
  11. Reference person of the household - main processing (population census)
  12. Reference populations
  13. Referencing centre
  14. Region
  15. Regional enterprise
  16. Regional grant for school equipment / DRES / DDEC / Dotation départementale d'équipement des collèges / DDEC
  17. Registered civil status event
  18. Registered job vacancies
  19. Register of localized buildings / RIL
  20. Registration of new private vehicles
  21. Regular smokers
  22. Reinforced educational centre
  23. Reinvested earnings on foreign direct investment
  24. Relative price of tobacco
  25. Remote working
  26. Renewable energies
  27. Rent
  28. Rent-free (households)
  29. Rent reference index / IRL
  30. Rent reference index - Law 2005 / IRL 2005 law
  31. Replacement fertility rate
  32. Reproduction rate
  33. Requirement in days
  34. Requirement in hours (salary)
  35. Research and development effort / RDE
  36. Research and experimental development / R&D
  37. Resident occupied population
  38. Residents
  39. Resources - Uses Balance
  40. Rest of the world
  41. Retail outlet
  42. Retail sales network
  43. Retirement pension
  44. Retraining plan
  45. Return on assets
  46. Return on equity
  47. Reversion pensions
  48. Road accidents
  49. Roundwood
  50. Rural cluster of an urban area
  51. Rural municipality
  52. Rural space
  53. Rural suburbs of an urban area

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. Single-parent family
  40. Siren number
  41. Siret number
  42. Slack work
  43. Small and medium enterprises / SME
  44. Small claims court
  45. Small Industrial Business Survey / EPEI
  46. Social assistance for accommodation
  47. Social benefits (national accounts)
  48. Social benefits (or social transfers)
  49. Social benefits other than social transfers in kinds
  50. Social Debt Repayment Contribution / CRDS
  51. Social rental market
  52. Social sector housing
  53. Social Security ceiling wage
  54. Social transfers in kind
  55. Sole proprietorship
  56. Sole proprietorship (national accounts)
  57. Solidarity allowance for the elderly
  58. Special court
  59. Specific Solidarity Allowance
  60. Spontaneous labour force
  61. Sports centre
  62. Sports federation
  63. Sports licence
  64. Sportspeople recognised by the Ministry
  65. Standard deviation
  66. Standard gross margin / SGM
  67. Standard gross output / SGP
  68. Standardised mortality index
  69. Standard of living
  70. State civil service
  71. State-convention moderate rent housing
  72. State debt
  73. Statistical block
  74. Statistical block database
  75. Statistical classification of products by activity in the EEC
  76. Statistical unit
  77. Statutory minimum
  78. Stay
  79. Step-parent (as defined by the household-family analysis)
  80. Still birth
  81. Structural indicator
  82. Structuring effect
  83. Student
  84. Student (population census)
  85. Subcontracting (industrial)
  86. Subsidiary corporation
  87. Subsidised contract
  88. Suburb
  89. Suburban area (in the sense of the degree of urbanisation)
  90. Suburban municipality of an urban area
  91. Summary economic classification / NES
  92. Supermarket
  93. Supplementary invalidity allowance
  94. Supplementary old-age allowance
  95. Survival table
  96. Suspension
  97. Sustainable development
  98. 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