Business Statistics Directorate (DSE)

The Business Statistics Directorate coordinates all statistics in the productive system. In particular, it ensures implementation of the statistical obligations of companies resulting from the main European regulations and ensures that all means are employed to achieve these goals, both inside and outside Head Office. It manages registers of enterprises and establishments (SIRENE inter-administrative register and statistical register), produces statistics on manufacturing, trade and market services, manages business databases, constructs short-term macroeconomic indicators and contributes to the preparation of the detailed sectoral annual national accounts. It organises various sector-based audits.