INSEE operations during the lockdown period

Abstract

Since the beginning of the lockdown period in France, Insee has managed to reorganise its work to ensure the continuity of its missions, thanks to widespread teleworking and the adaptation of certain household surveys from face-to-face interviews to telephone interviews. Insee has also provided new output relevant both to the decision-makers and to the public, using partly new data sources (such as aggregated credit card transactions or mobile phone data) and new methods (mainly nowcasting) to shed light on the evolution of the French economic situation in real time as well as on the distribution of the present population throughout the national territory and the development of the mortality rate.