Number of employees in the Official Statistical System at 1st January 2023

INSEE and official statistics
Dernière mise à jour le : 01/08/2023

The Official Statistical System is "functionally decentralised".

It is composed by Insee and Ministerial Statistical Offices (MSOs) listed in the amended Decree 2009-250 of the 3rd of March 2009 concerning the French Official Statistics Authority (ASP).

In the following table of employees, the scope of the Official Statistics is broader than the scope of the Official Statistical Service. It includes all the statistical units of the Ministerial decentralised Offices.

Total Official Statistics

All Central Offices Decentralised Offices
INSEE* 5 027** 1 133*** 3 894****
Ministries 1 913 1 135 778
INSEE + Ministries 6 940 2 268 4 672
of wich Official Statistical Service 6 423 2 268 4 155
  • (*) Employees at 31 December 2022
  • (**) Not including GENES personnel
  • (***) Head Office including Cefil
  • (****) Including Metz Statistical Center, now a unit of the Grand Est Regional Office

Detail by Domain

Ministerial Domains All of wich statistical services of the central administration (including in province) of which decentralised statistical services (including those of the Ile-de-France region)
Total of which INSEE Total of which INSEE Total of which INSEE
Agriculture and Food 374 94 113 43 261 51
Local Authorities 9 7 9 7 0 0
External Trade 103 7 28 6 75 1
Culture 43 7 43 7 0 0
Defence 15 5 15 5 0 0
Energy, Housing, Transport and the Environment 218 75 152 57 66 18
Education 467 55 200 30 267 25
Higher Education, Research 70 16 70 16 0 0
Public Finances 16 7 16 7 0 0
Civil Service 20 12 20 12 0 0
Immigration 20 6 20 6 0 0
Youth and Sports 9 5 9 5 0 0
Justice 62 21 62 21 0 0
Health and Solidarity 173 67 170 64 3 3
Internal Security 49 19 49 19 0 0
Labour 265 74 159 46 106 28
Total 1 913 477 1 135 351 778 126
incl.
Total category A agents 1 373 449 924 339 449 110
Total category B agents 386 28 139 12 247 16
Total category C agents 154 0 72 0 82 0
Total in MSOs 1 396 402 1 135 351 261 51
  • Nota : are noted in bold the number of MSOs employees for whom the scope of wich is defined by the decree 2009-250 of the 3rd March 2009 relating to the French Authority of Public Statistics (ASP).