Survey on the situation of associations in 2018
Associations 2018
Associations 2018
Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Punctual or aperiodic
Data collection
The collection ran from October 14, 2019 to March 15, 2020 for non-employers and from October 7, 2019 to February 15, 2020 for employers. It is conducted via the internet and, optionally, by mail (at the request of the association).
Data collection period
October 2019 -- February / March 2020
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
- Association
- Legal unit
Sampling method
The sample is drawn from a sampling frame constructed from the Siren and RNA registers according to a systematic random sampling design stratified according to the field of activity, the number of employees (for employers) and the year of creation. The systematic draw concerns the region and the size of the municipality. The calculation of the allocations combines a Neyman'sallocationon the dispersion of the number of members and a Neyman'sallocation on the dispersion of resources.
Sample size
34,202 units (17,161 employer associations and 17,041 non-employer associations).
Data collection documents
The questionnaire and filling instructions are available on insee.fr.
- Questionnaire for associations survey 2018 (pdf, fr, 782 Ko, 01/01/2018)
- Notice of associations survey 2018 (pdf, fr, 98 Ko, 01/01/2018)
Data validation
- Controls during collection
- Reminders during collection
- Data cleaning to ensure consistency of responses within each questionnaire
- Winsorisation: control of the influence of atypical units
- Calculation of accuracy indicators
Adjustment
No seasonal effect