An alternative method: measuring the volume production of the main activities of INSEE

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The difficulty in finding a satisfactory indicator that would measure INSEE's production in volume as a whole calls for another approach: that of first trying to measure the production in volume of INSEE's main activities , then aggregating them to obtain an overall measurement. To this end, INSEE's activity has been split between: statistical production outside the census (essentially survey activity and management of administrative sources); administrative directories, namely the national identification system and the directory of businesses and their establishments (Sirene), the national directory of identification of natural persons (RNIPP), the LEI ( Legal entity identifier ) ​​directory and the single electoral register (REU); the population census; studies; the economic situation; and national accounting.

For statistical production outside the census, the number of surveys women database and administrative sources was calculated in 2006 and 2024. This shows a strong growth: 110 in 2024 compared to 76 in 2006. But this indicator is too crude, because it does not take into account either the complexity attached to the different surveys (sample size or questioning methods for example), or the use made of administrative sources. Two valuations of these complexities were tested and result in an evolution of the production for surveys and administrative sources over the last twenty years of 0.5% per year or 1.5%, i.e. three times more. This gap demonstrates the difficulty of accurately measuring the evolution of this type of production.