The themes are about:
- the situation of the association;
- mode of governance and management;
- members;
- the field of activity;
- employees and other personnel;
- volunteers;
- resources;
- expenditures;
- the provision of premises or land;
- belonging to a network.

The main areas of dissemination are as follows:
- Employer / Non-employer
- Field of activity of the association in 10 modalities:
1 = '1 - Cultural activities (excluding performances, preservation or promotion of heritage)'
2 = '2 - Performances and artistic activities
3 = '3 - Leisure, entertainment, social life
4 = '4 - Social or medico-social accommodation
5 = '5 - Health'
6 = '6 - Sports'
7 = '7 - Advocacy
8 = '8 - Management of economic services and local development
9 = '9 - Social, humanitarian and charitable action (excluding accommodation)
10 = '10 - Education, training and research

• Number of employees in 4 modalities for the employer part:
  A = Between 0 and 4 employees
  B = Between 5 and 9 employees
  C = Between 10 and 49 employees
  D = Between 50 and 199 employees
  E = 200 employees or more

With number of employees = number of hours worked / 1820

The interrogation unit is the association, identified by its SIREN number if it is listed in Siren, otherwise its RNA number from the National Directory of Associations.

The total scope of the "Associations" survey is associations under the 1901 law and similar:
- active (having existed) at least one day in 2018,
- located in France (metropolitan France and overseas departments including Mayotte),
- and present in the Sirène directory or the national directory of associations (RNA) at the end of 2018.

For associations present in the Sirène directory, the scope of the Associations survey is defined by legal category 92, with the exception of associations of lawyers with individual professional responsibility (legal category 9224) which are not under the regime of the law of 1901.

For associations absent from the Sirène directory but present in the National Directory of Associations (RNA), no field restriction is applied since this directory contains only associations under the 1901 law. The associations surveyed are units under the 1901 law regime or assimilated, located on French territory (metropolitan France and overseas departments including Mayotte), active as of 31/12/2018 and having had at least 1 day of activity in 2018.

2018