Courrier des statistiques N5 - 2020

Issue N5 could not ignore the specific nature of 2020: it therefore begins with an article by the Director-General of INSEE on the adaptation of the institute and its methods to the exceptional context of the health crisis. The Courrier then looks at the structuring issues of governance, through the French Official Statistics Authority, which takes stock of its ten years of existence, and the recent experience of the Official Statistics Quality Label Committee.

How to produce data useful for public decision-making? With a highly flexible cartographic representation, gridding makes it possible to better grasp the reality of territories. With an adapted communication, the indicators of added value of high schools meet the need for evaluation and internal steering, as well as the expectations of citizens and the media. With a dynamic microsimulation model on pensions, Prisme supports the legislator who wants to change the regulations.

Finally, the last article raises a simple question: what is data? Exploiting this material is the core business of the statistician, but does he really measure all its dimensions?