Annual sectoral survey 2019
ESA 2019
ESA 2019
Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Annual
Data collection
The survey is historically conducted by mail. It is possible to respond by internet since 2013, initially via a fillable PDF questionnaire, and then from the ESA 2018 collected in 2019, via an online questionnaire proposed by the internet-based data collection system developped by Insee.
The annual data on the year N is collected in several waves between February and June of the year N+1 in order to take account of businesses' different financial year end dates.
Data collection period
From February to October
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
Legal unit
Sampling method
The sampling design is a two-stage stratified clustered simple ramdom sampling, according to strata defined by the size classes crossed with the economic sectors. Above given size thresholds (thresholds on tunover and on number of employees), which are variable according to the economic sector, the strata are take-all strata.
Sample size
120 000 legal units (principally) and enterprises
Data collection documents
- Construction notice (pdf, fr, 57 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Notice Forestry and sawmills (pdf, fr, 60 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Notice Agricultural and food industries (pdf, fr, 78 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Notice Performing arts (pdf, fr, 49 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Notice Transports (pdf, fr, 123 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Retail Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 732 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Wholesale Trade Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 683 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Construction Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 57 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Enquête Exploitations forestières (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 672 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Agricultural and Food Industries Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 679 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Business Services Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 669 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Personal Services Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 632 Ko, 24/01/2020)
- Transportation Survey (Questionnaire 2019) (pdf, fr, 525 Ko, 24/01/2020)
Data compilation
A specific data editing procedure has been implemented. This procedure also ensures the consistency of the survey data with admistrative data.