This survey, in conjunction with the "information system on public services" (SIASP in French), will complete the coverage of non-market sectors in Sections O and P of NACE rev. 2 (Public Administration and Education).

The survey on government employees collects, on its field of interest, the individual characteristics of employees relating to:
- the training level;
- the career path before and after entering the civil service;
- the actual working time, taking account of days off of various types and other days not worked;
- the family situation, the household income and information on origins.

The survey unit is the employee.

All employees of the State public service (ministries and public administrative services) except military personnel, irrespective of their status (official, contractual, casual, paid trainee and other status, including apprentices and subsidized contracts), active at least one day during the year 2018.

Since 2010