Focus on some SSP Actions

As part of the implementation of Ouvrir dans un nouvel ongletRegulation 223/2009 on European statistics (as amended), INSEE and the Ministerial Statistical Offices have adopted common rules for the dissemination of statistical indicators and privileged access authorised by way of derogation.

These rules are based on the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS Plus) created by the IMF. The IMF took these measures to improve transparency and openness among member countries, in particular through the development of voluntary standards for the dissemination of economic and financial data.
These rules are consistent with the European Statistics Code of Practice, which requires the SSP to provide advance notice of the dates and times of publication of the most significant statistics and to provide access to the publications of statistical indicators to all users at the same time and under the same conditions. Any privileged early access to dissemination granted to an external user must be limited, sufficiently justified, controlled and made public.
Dissemination rules apply to statistical indicators that are of critical importance to the economic, social or environmental analysis of a sector of activity as well as to decision-making and/or of value to political decision makers and the media; they must be the subject of an initial dissemination.
These rules do not apply to studies and summary reports.
They are made public on each of the websites of the Statistical Departments and are accompanied by a list of the statistical indicators in question.

Revising statistics requires coordination within the same statistical area, harmonisation of revisions where they apply to the European level and decision-making on statistics produced using different quality criteria. When new data produced at a later date are incorporated into the production of statistics, the revised statistics gain in accuracy and reliability but also lose in novelty. Statistical data may also be revised as a result of methodological or conceptual changes. Revisions serve to increase the relevance of the data produced, but they limit the comparability of time series data by introducing breaks in series.
INSEE revises its statistics to ensure that they accurately portray reality and are relevant and reliable. The institute uses procedures that are standard, well-established and organised based on international standards. It announces revisions at the same time as their dissemination or in advance according to a protocol adapted to the source of the revisions, their scale and the sensitivity of the published statistics. The dissemination of the relevant statistical sources on the Insee.fr website is accompanied by all the guidance necessary for understanding the revisions made.

The general revision policy is consistent with the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice and is based more specifically on the following indicators and principles:

INSEE develops and publishes methodological documentation and guidelines for the Official Statistical Service based on international and European standards, guidelines and common good practices in the international statistical system.
To this end, the methodological guides disseminated by INSEE in the “Statistical Methodology” section present the main methods and tools used by INSEE in the different phases of the survey process, from sampling through to estimation methods and the production of quality reports: theoretical framework, context of application, examples and bibliographical references. The guides are completed as and when INSEE explores new methods for processing and improving the quality of statistics.