Survey on information and communication technologies (ICT) in business 2021
Business ICT 2021
Business ICT 2021
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Traitement statistique
Frequency of data collection
Annual
Data collection
The collection, conducted by internet since 2012, is launched in the first quarter of the year in question.
The survey covers the whole of France (geography at the time of collection).
The survey is collected mainly on the INSEE Internet portal (98% of returns) and at the request of the company, by e-mail or post.
The interrogation unit is the legal unit (UL), identified by its SIREN number, with the exception of 10 units which are interrogated in profiled enterprises (EP).
Data collection period
January to April
Collection mode
- By post mail
- By Internet
Survey unit
Legal unit
Sampling method
The sampling base is the Sirus register (Identification system for the Statistical Units in the Register).
The sample is stratified by business sector and by size and, since 2012, by turnover. Depending on the survey year, approximately 12,500 businesses are surveyed.
Sample size
12500
Data collection documents
- Explanatory notice 2021 for the survey on information and communication technologies in business (ICT) (pdf, fr, 111 Ko, 13/05/2021)
- 2021 ICT ENT questionnaire (pdf, en, 170 Ko, 04/07/2023)
Data validation
- Checks during the collection phase
- Follow-ups during the collection phase: exhaustive reminders by mail on non-respondents, priority telephone reminders on large non-respondents
- Data cleaning to ensure consistency of answers within each questionnaire
- Winsorisation: control of the influence of atypical units
- Calculation of precision indicators