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This year, the ENSAE Data Challenge brought together 5 groups of 3rd-year students to tackle a theme proposed by Sanofi…

EDDI 2025 is being hosted by the Research Documentation Centre at the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary, from Monday 1 to Friday 5 December 2025.

In December, CASD had the pleasure of receiving a visit from Richard Welpton, Director of Data Services Infrastructure at UKRI…

Since 2020, SIES, has regularly made its sources available to the research community via CASD.

A very well written and interesting blog post on the protection of data used for statistics, research and studies.

A conference to discuss statistical priorities from the point of view of users of official statistics.

The seminar will report on the progress made…

The next webinar will focus on Spark in local and cluster mode, and will take place on April 30 from 11:00 to 12:30.

The aim of the survey is to regularly assess the user experience and the quality of CASD services (project implementation, work environment) and developments (this year, the new CDAP portal functionalities).

Julia is a programming language that is being adopted by more and more CASD projects.

A presentation of DGFiP data is scheduled for Wednesday March 26, 2025 from 2:00 to 4:30 pm.

The CASD was present as a shared infrastructure, with two other experience feedbacks and a time for exchanges with participants.

The regulation has provided a sustainable framework…

CASD is organizing a special training course on Wednesday March 26, 2025, starting at 2pm (duration: 2h30), led by DGFiP data producers, on tax sources produced from people’s declarations.

On January 22, CASD presented its services and access arrangements at a seminar on how researchers can access agricultural statistics data.

GOLD-GENOPHENOMET project relies on genetic data from volunteers in the Constances cohort, made securely available to CASD…

On the agenda were the development of CDAP, which is becoming a central point for all stakeholders, streamlining processes…

ASD presented its model at “Round Table 2 – Protection of personal data”, which took place on November 28, 2024.

CESS 2024 was held in Paris from October 15 to 16 on the theme “The agenda beyond GDP: past, present and visions for the future”…

This France Stratégie report is based in particular on work carried out on the CASD…

This issue includes 2 articles : « Les enjeux de la réplicabilité et de la reproductibilité dans la sociologie quantitative » (written by Lucas Sage) and « Partage des données et protection de la confidentialité : quels nouveaux enjeux pour…

The next CESS Conference “The Beyond GDP agenda: past, present, future visions for the future” will be held in Paris on October 15 and 16, 2024.

This international conference dedicated to intelligent metadata was held in Paris on April 11 and 12. Around a hundred participants attended some thirty presentations.

Relayed by Déontofi.com, the report’s first recommendations include opening up AMF data via CASD.

CASD took part in the 11th European Conference on the Quality of Official Statistics (Q2024) organized by Statistics Portugal and Eurostat in Estoril…

Santé publique France has set up a follow-up program for the active unemployed…

An article on the joint work of Cnil and CASD in drafting these new practical information sheets.

The CASD is mentioned in an article entitled « Vers la fin du marché carbone dans l’UE ? Pourquoi c’est loin d’être une bonne idée » published on July 12, 2024.

CASD’s computing environment is evolving in step with new uses for data processing…

The general meeting of GIP CASD members was held in person at the CASD premises on June 21, 2024.

CASD has developed a secure authentication interface to enhance user comfort…

After the 1st session on May 21, 2024 with Gérard Forgeot and Roddy Caccialupi from the DGFiP (50 participants), a new training session using DGFiP data will be organized in autumn.

An interview with Anne-Juliette Bessone, head of department and deputy director of Dares, on opening up data to researchers.

This conference will take place in Chur, Switzerland, from December 2 to 6, 2024. Anyone interested in DDIs is invited to attend and make a presentation. Submissions close on September 2.

The COSMOS conference on metadata organized by INSEE was a great success : over a hundred participants and more than twenty countries represented…

On the agenda this year: an update on the state of the cohorts and recent results, notably concerning liver pathologies, arterial hypertension…

Call for proposals for the Conference of European Statistics Stakeholders (CESS) in Paris, October 15-16, 2024

Presentation of major medium-term themes and 2 round table discussions…

CASD took part in a round-table discussion on access to education data at this event organized by DEPP, SSM of the French Ministry of Education.

TikTok will use the CASD technology and services for the purposes of the pilot…

On France Télévisions, in the issue “Alimentation : à qui profite la hausse des prix ?”, Axelle Arquié of CEPII presents access to confidential data via SDBOX.

The French Embassy in Germany supports 1 to 3-month mobility to France for doctoral students/post-docs working in Germany.

CASD and the Ministerial Statistical Service for Internal Security (SSMSI) have signed an agreement to make individual data available: the Genese (Gender and Security) 2021 survey.

To mark the 1st year of their “ESTRADD” partnership for the supply of secure environments, teams from CASD, DREES and DARES got together to discuss the project.

The agenda included CASD news, a presentation of the machine learning algorithm for anonymized output from results files, and other new features under development…

The CASD interface on the CDAP portal gives all CASD users an overview of their current projects

CASD presented its secure infrastructure and an application for extracting data from the Système National des Données de Santé (SNDS) at the annual seminar of this network of SNDS data experts, held on November 16.

IDAN (International Data Access Network), which facilitates the use of data by researchers, has now reached a further milestone…

Paola Tubaro is Director of Research at the CNRS. Trained as an economist, then as a sociologist, she is a member of CREST (ENSAE).

Scores are rising steadily: between 9.2 and 9.4/10 for each of the three CASD services

CASD presented a paper describing a new tool for checking the output of results files

The objective is a guide to the opening and reuse of publicly accessible data. The consultation is open until October 15, 2023.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is currently conducting a CASD research project to assess the potential impact of lung cancer screening in France.

Conclusions and recommendations are expected by the end of the summer.

This document presents a methodology for matching individual data on identity traits…

By becoming a member of the CASD public interest group, the Banque de France will contribute to its operation and participate in its governance.

CASD is cited as a secure access hub offering healthcare data access services.

Its aim is to provide information and gather comments on the new French Nomenclature of Activities (NAF 2025) in force in 2025.

For several years now, CASD has been making Spark available to users to facilitate distributed processing on large volumes of data.

FORS, the Swiss competence center for the social sciences, came to meet the CASD teams to gain a better understanding of its overall operation…

With concerns about the environment on the rise, CASD projects in the field of agriculture are gaining in popularity.

According to the initial results, overall satisfaction with each service has been maintained and even improved, and the CASD user experience is highly appreciated. A detailed report will be available on our website this summer.

This article, which appeared in the latest issue of Chroniques du Cnis, follows on from the meeting held on January 28, 2022…

This September, the Data Governance Act, the first component of the European Data Strategy, will come into force.

This network that CASD coordinates is organizing this seminar with researchers to discuss next steps to facilitate the use of administrative data from different countries. If you are interested, contact us by sending an email to service@casd.eu.

Roxane SILBERMAN, Scientific Director of the CASD, has been elected President of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC), one of the governance bodies of the European Statistical System and Eurostat.

The public consultation to prepare the 2024-2028 program has just been opened…

Health is and will continue to be an essential subject for scientific research, both from a medical point of view and for the evaluation of public policies.

CASD and Insee are organising a presentation session on the All Employees Database in early December.

The 2nd call for projects “Autonomy: aging and disability situations” has been launched: an information webinar will be held on February 16, 2023 on how to mobilize the allocated funds.

This conference will invite reflection on the need for innovation that official statistics must meet in order to guarantee the independence

An interview with Thierry Bedoin, DG of the Banque de France’s Information System, on the availability of the Bank’s data on the CASD

Following the signature of an agreement between the CASD and the Direction Générale des Douanes et des Droits Indirects (DGDDI), the data from the Customs administration are now available.

It will take place on December 13, 2022. More information on the General Assembly, governance and missions of CASD on our website.

The director of the CASD presented the CASD: governance and security of data for research and statistical purposes in the national and European context at this INSEE seminar on November 15.

The CASD rolled out a new multi-project logon system in early October.

Olivier GODECHOT and his team produced a publication with scripts

On the agenda were the implementation of Onyxia, the issue of large platform data under the constraints of the Data Service Act and the ongoing work on the cost model at the CASD.

Charles DE LA VERPILLIERE, Honorary State Councillor, has just been appointed Chairman of the Comité du secret statistique.

It invites researchers to submit an abstract on one of the many themes or on methodological issues.

The use of social protection, the diversity of business models and workers’ status, discrimination… will be some of the issues discussed.

Data on the environment in the volunteers’ homes…

VTL is a new language intended to be directly usable by statisticians to specify, and thus document, validation rules and logical transformations on data.

Search engines, video sharing platforms and social networks generate huge amounts of data…

On 30 May 2022, the European Union adopted the Data Governance Act (DGA) regulation, which governs the re-use of data held by public administrations. Operational implementation is expected by September 2023.

After the success of the previous session, a training session on FIDELI data is scheduled for 7 June from 2 to 5 pm, entirely online.

It will take place on 23 June 2022. More information on the General Assembly, governance and missions of the CASD on our website.

Administrative and statistical databases, resulting from surveys or information systems operated by the SIES-MESRI are now open to research.

The colloquium aims to highlight illustrations of original and new longitudinal data over the last few years and to question current or potential statistical developments.

It will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Franco-German call in humanities and social sciences ANR-DFG.

Data from the Direction générale des douanes et des droits indirects (DGDDI) will soon be available on the CASD.

The first presentation session of Insee Entreprises data (in particular FARE FICUS data) took place on Friday 11 March 2022.

The discussions focused, among other things, on the use of private data sources by researchers and the strategy to be adopted in the context of the Data Act,…

A collaboration between the InSHS and the CNRS data protection department, it provides answers to questions that may arise when personal data is processed for research purposes.

Topics covered in this 28th issue published in February: House Prices and HICP, OECD Statistical Services, Health Data Hub, Demographic Review…

The mobilisation and matching of administrative data has long been much more advanced in countries whose official statistics were originally based on these sources.

ENIACRAMS a matching of multiple sources of administrative data on beneficiaries or former beneficiaries of social minima and activity income.

The IDAN network continues to set up remote access points to confidential data in partner secure centres.

For all new projects and those for which the manager has requested it. Java integration, performance improvement: the new features of the 17.

The 2022 edition of the “sandbox” call for projects has been launched by the CNIL with, this year, digital education as the theme.

A team of journalists from the programme carried out the procedures for accessing health data and filmed the CASD enrolment session. To be found in the last issue broadcast on 13/01/2022 and available in replay on France.tv.

  The meeting focused on the ongoing discussions at ONS (UK National Statistical Office) to allow secure remote access to their data from partners’ Safe Rooms.

During this online event dedicated to the Constances cohort, it was indicated that the CASD, thanks to its reinforced security, certifications and approvals, provides very “reassuring” guarantees for the volunteers of the cohort.

The Banque de France and the CASD have just signed a partnership agreement to make Banque de France data available on the CASD.

The report includes a review of the current situation and recommendations for improving compliance with the principles of the Code of Practice.

The government has published the 15 ministerial roadmaps…

Administrative sources that can be matched with each other and with surveys are a very rich resource…

The DPO and the Security Manager of the CASD have successfully passed the “ISO 27701 Lead Implementer” certification exam with the mention “Advanced”.

The CASD user guide, which contains all the information you need to understand the CASD security environment, has been updated. Please consult it on the CASD website (see footer).

Studies on these topics can be based on the ParcourSup data available on the CASD.

Datastorm presents at ENSAE Paris three successful experiences of synergies between academic research and corporate data projects.

It will highlight feedback on the use of the ISO 27000 series of standards…

CASD is included as infrastructure in France’s AI strategy presented to the European Commission.

The decree n° 2021-959 published on 20/07/2021 allows access to the data of this fund for statistical or scientific research purposes.

In this sixth edition, the Courrier des statistiques explores four sources, two methods and one institution.

The overall volume of data is of the order of a hundred terabytes which will be processed on a CASD computing cluster.

ATIH is now offering an open access version of ScanCovid, its tool for visualising Covid-19 patient stays, designed to provide better knowledge of the epidemic.

DARES has set up a data matching system: the FORCE system.

Roxane SILBERMAN was appointed as a member of ESAC by the European Commission on 3 May. ESAC is one of the governance bodies of the European Statistical System and Eurostat.

Launched by DREES and its partners, it deals with themes that have not yet been fully addressed by research.

The Pôle de service de l’action régionale ” Études Économiques Régionales ” (Psar EER) of INSEE’s Occitanie regional directorate…

The CNIS Bureau met in a webconference on 18 March.

In the first episode, dated 11 February 2021, they interviewed Shane Redman, Senior Data Project Manager at ICPSR.

There are many advantages…

3 articles were published by Marcel GOLDBERG and Marie ZINS (INSERM/Constances) in the March issue

Detailed data (age, gender, etc.) on sports licences and the national sociological survey on sports practices are available on the CASD.

CNIL is organising a consultation on a draft reference framework.

Within this framework, the CASD is publishing a list of highly detailed data sources that may be particularly useful for research on the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Sars-Cov2 was probably in circulation in France as early as November 2019. This is what the retrospective analysis of the data from the Bio-banque de Constance shows.

Organised on 25 and 26 March by GESIS and Eurostat: numerous presentations of research work using European micro-data and an opportunity for methodological discussions on the data with Eurostat.

After having been successfully audited by Bureau Veritas, CASD obtained 27701 certification on July 23, 2020.

The last meeting of the IDAN network that aims to facilitate such transnational access was held on January 19th.

This Call for Expression of Interest aims to accelerate research by implementing research programmes based on data collection and sharing.

2020 has obviously been a complicated year for all of us, a year during which the entire CASD team has mobilised to enable the continuity of access to data…

The Court of Auditors and the CNRS are organizing their first scientific colloquium, on the theme “Scientific research and public action – Digital sciences”, on December 8.

CASD suggests that you fill in your publications or communications produced in 2020 with the producer data available at CASD. To indicate your publications, go to our website.

From December 7 to 11, CASD is participating in DATA SHS Week…

The signature of this agreement will make the “Elipa 2” survey available…

2’47 to summarize the CASD.

  CASD has purchased Tesla T4 GPGPU cards. They should allow drastic acceleration of Deep Learning training and inference, Machine Learning, or data analysis processing.

Due to the Coronavirus epidemic currently affecting France, CASD immediately implemented preventive measures with the aim of ensuring the continuity of your business.

An article stating the need to use trusted third parties to verify the results of studies based on confidential data.

A 20-year anniversary conference of the Canadian Network of Research Data Centres (CRDCN) in cooperation with Statistics Canada from October 1 to 28

With the Covid-19 pandemic, clinical and epidemiological data have obviously been in the front line with, in particular, investigations launched in collaboration with large cohorts including Constances, hosted at the CASD. To measure the social and economic impact of the…

ATIH renews its partnership with CASD.

An article on the Australian government’s policy changes on its sensitive data.

Statup is the ENSAE entrepreneurship club which aims to promote innovation and entrepreneurship at ENSAE and on the Saclay plateau.

Jean-Luc Tavernier, Director General of INSEE, spoke at the OECD on 25 June to present access to microdata in France.

Interview with Jamal ATIF, Professor at Dauphine – PSL, Deputy Scientific Director of the PRAIRIE Institute.

The activity of official statistics in 2019, the international context and compliance with good practice in European statistics and the assessment and outlook for ESL issues are detailed.

Data from the APB and Parcoursup applications will be available from June on the CASD.

By choosing LibreOffice as their office suite, researchers can reduce the monthly cost of their next project subscription.

Within the framework of the IDAN network, the CASD and the German research center FDZ have jointly published this report.

To answer the many questions raised by the epidemic caused by Covid-19, calls for projects are being launched in France for scientific communities in various fields and with accelerated procedures.

This seminar was an opportunity for the CASD to present secure remote access.

Citing the data used for research is just as important as citing bibliographic references…

CASD and Drees have just signed an agreement for the provision of data relating to health and social protection.

The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) is looking for research projects around Parcoursup.

Members of the International Data Access Network (IDAN) met in Palaiseau.

The article “Technology Boom, Labor Reallocation, and Human Capital Depreciation” has been certified by the cascad certification agency on CASD environment.

CASD and its partners have agreed….

Antoine BOZIO highlights in particular the transformative impact of access to the new data made available by the DGFiP.

Esther DUFLO, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is being honored…

A project led by HEC and Dauphine will focus on the link between business strategies (mergers and acquisitions) and employee health.

Christel COLIN is Director of Business Statistics at INSEE.

The CASD Director met with the Spanish Financial Accountability Authority (AIReF).

CASD and Inserm have signed a framework partnership agreement for the secure hosting, processing and provision of cohort data.

This consultation will close on Monday, September 30, 2019.

The CSS provides you with an application on the CDAP portal that allows you to submit and manage online requests for access to confidential data.

CASD was cited in The New York Times as an example of a secure infrastructure for accessing detailed data.

The CASD website provides researchers with the opportunity to access a description of available data sources.

CASD and the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation have signed an agreement for the next availability of data on CIFRE.

It will be an opportunity to make an initial assessment of the six months of existence of the new structure.

Income tax and ISF/IFI data are now available on the CASD.

An SD-Box will be installed in CBS’ offices at The Hague.

An agreement has just been signed between CASD, the National Health Insurance Fund and the start-up Sêmeia.

Access to bank data is a key issue.

It shows an overall satisfaction rate of 82%.

The 5th version of the SD-Box is now ready to be deployed!

The conference organised by CASD and the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB) took place on 28 and 29 March.

This platform will allow the filing and follow-up of requests for access to detailed data falling within the competence of the Secret Committee.

France Stratégie conducted a study to situate France in terms of the production of public policy impact assessments in relation to six comparable countries.

Data from the Caisse Nationale d’Allocations Familiales are now available from the CASD.

“On the privacy conscientious use of mobile phone data”, par Yves Alexandre de Montjoye et al. est paru dans la revue Nature en décembre 2018.

In order to improve the accessibility of visually impaired people to the CASD, the device has been adapted to allow voice synthesis of the information displayed within the secure environment.

November 29, 2018 : Presentation of the Fidéli-Nautile database to INSEE

Conference on Secure French & German Employment Data on 28 & 29 March 2019

CASD is preparing the launch of a new generation of SD-Box.

The HYGIE source of GIP-IRDES allows the analysis of work stoppages and their compensation.

1st October 2018 : Opening for submission for the first CASD / IAB Conference on the advances in social sciences using administrative and survey data. 30 October 2018 : Deadline for submission

As part of the IDAN project related to cooperation between secure centres, access points are now being set up at GESIS and UKDS.

SAVE THE DATE_Advances in Social Sciences Using Administrative and Survey Data

First French-German conference on research based on confidential administrative and survey data

March 28-29, 2019, Paris, France

CASD has set up a secure virtual dataroom for a large French company.

A partnership between Archives of France, National Archives and CASD has been signed in order to initiate a joined thinking on challenges and guidelines to archive and how to communicate to researchers.

On 10 and 11 July, the OECD is organising a workshop…

As part of the implementation of the DGMP, we remind you that you can unsubscribe from the CASD newsletter at any time.

German data from IAB, the Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany, is now accessible  to researchers in France using a remote location at CASD’s offices.

A conference was held on Thursday, 29 March, following the release of the Villani report on artificial intelligence. Many topics were discussed organized around the three main themes of research and training, societal impacts, and economic policies. Questions like:  Can AI enter the University? Can AI replace our jobs? At what stage of AI evolution are we today? How can we organize research and training to better develop AI knowledge in France and Europe? Can we trust algorithms? And more

The CASD was received by Cédric Villani on March 6 to discuss access to secure data.

CASD participated in a meeting at Eurostat with the Directors of Methodology and Information Systems of the Member States.

During their meeting with the deputy Mr. BAICHERE, Philippe CUNEO and Kamel GADOUCHE presented the technology deployed and the functioning of the CASD.

CASD coordinates the implementation of a cross-border collaboration between secure access data center : French, British, German and Dutch. The aim is to facilitate the access to data for researchers of these countries, avoiding them work trips and enabling them…

Our website is now almost entirely available in English.

Satisfaction survey is ongoing. The results will be online in June 2018.

In order to comply to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR EU-2016/679), a new draft of the law relating to computers, files and civil was published on 13 December 2017 and is currently under review by the French Parliamant.

What consequences will this new bill have on data access for scientific research ?

CASD presented the results of the work with INSEE on metadata dissemination at the closing meeting of the ESSNet-SCFE project.

On Tuesday, December 12, 2017, at the National Assembly, a round table on the theme of “Public Policy Evaluation, Platform State and Big Data” was held.

The Committee on Statistical Secrecy has just launched its new website.

Watch the interview of Thomas PIKETTY on CASD

In order to meet user expectations, CASD will upgrade IT resources within its workspaces.