Emmanuelle Smadja

Announced last month, the CASD conference is taking shape! It will be held on Tuesday, 17 November 2026, at the Maison de l’Océan in Paris.

The ASP/CNIS international conference on 19 June 2026 brought together nearly 300 people to examine the growing threats to the professional independence of public statistics posed by rising populism, declining resources, and challenges to rationality, while highlighting the solidity of the European statistical system and the need for a coalition with research and users to defend this democratic common good.

CASD now hosts SSMSI’s statistical databases on recorded crime (2016–2024), covering offences, victims and suspects — researchers can apply for access at cdap.casd.eu.

EDDI 2026, the 18th European DDI Users Conference, will be held in person in Brussels from November 30 to December 4, 2026 — with tutorials, conference sessions and a hackathon — and the call for proposals is now open.

The Scientific Advisory Board met on May 13 to discuss data documentation progress, a pilot for less sensitive data processing, health-environment research projects, and the potential impact of US data access restrictions on researchers.

CASD now offers a dedicated status page at casd.status.io to keep users informed in real time about service availability, planned maintenance and incidents — even if CASD’s own sites go down.

Philippe Donnay, a founder and cornerstone of CASD, is retiring after years of decisive contributions to the development of the project’s secure infrastructure.

CASD invites you to a new Web Data Tech session dedicated to DuckDB. While a previous Parquet/DuckDB webinar focused primarily on the Parquet format, this session will focus essentially on the DuckDB tool itself and the numerous features that make it essential for high-performance data processing today.

Since the beginning of the year, CASD has provided interactive knowledge bases, accessible via a link within the secure bubble. The objective is to centralize all best practices regarding the tools and data available within the secure environments.

The French Statistical Society (SFdS) recently published a note regarding the decree establishing the National Cancer Registry.

In his March 25 column, historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz highlights the work of socio-economist Yoann Demoli on the ‘job market reshuffle’.

The CASD took part in the CESP (Inserm) seminar on March 23.

The Statistics and Foresight Service (SSP) invites you to a presentation session dedicated to the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) data, on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, via videoconference.

The Ministry of the Armed Forces and Veterans has just signed an agreement with the CASD to make its data available to researchers.