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CASD is organizing a CASD Data Tech webinar on September 16, 2025 from 11:00 to 12:30, to present the Julia programming language.

Thank you to over 300 respondents! Overall satisfaction has risen again compared with previous years, reflecting the desire for constant improvement in service quality. Detailed report this summer.

Certification was awarded on May 16, 2025…

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.

CASD has been certified according to the french health data hosting certification.

The Agora association organizes conferences within the school.

As every year, CASD offers researchers the opportunity to provide information on publications or communications produced in 2019.

CASD has been certified according to the international information security management standard ISO 27001.

This first report comes one year after the launch of the major renovation of capital taxation before a multi-year evaluation.

The CASD exploits the possibilities offered by several public blockchains…

The work of researchers conducted in research centres abroad on French data has increased.

Lars Vilhuber (Cornell University) is Data Editor at the American Economic Association.

Gabrielle FACK, professor at the University of Paris Dauphine and Jérôme DEAUVIEAU, professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, are appointed.

This is the question mark title of the next meeting, on 3 October from 9:30 to 12:30 am, of the Public Services Commission of the CNIS…

The CNIL is launching a public consultation with researchers on data processing for scientific research purposes.

The presentation of the data is getting richer…

While the question of the reproducibility of research results is at the forefront, certification has just been the subject of an article in Science.

This call for projects, launched by DARES…

The biometric card of the CASD changes its appearance….

Stefanie Stantcheva is a CASD user and talks to us about data access.

Jean-Pierre Le Gléau’s book, the first book entirely dedicated to this subject, has just been published.

The 2018 databases of the Medical Information Systems Program (MISP) are now available on the CASD.

To meet the ever-increasing needs of our users, two additional configurations are now available.

The CASD user guide is regularly updated.

The deadline for submission of proposals is 30 April 2019.

cascad and CASD are partnering to offer an innovative solution to demonstrate the reproducibility of research on confidential data.

The number of producers filing their data is increasing.

Kamel Gadouche, CASD Director, was interviewed on France Inter.

New year, new future: the creation of the public interest group (GIP) CASD was published in journal officiel du 29 décembre 2018.

As every year, CASD invites you to provide information on your publications or communications produced in 2018.

As part of the “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” plan announced by the President of the Republic, the State wishes to support the launch of “AI Challenges”.

The CASD has installed its IT infrastructure in the controlled enclosure of a high security centre specifically reserved for it.

December 6, 2018 : The French sociology journal is organizing a round table discussion in the Goguel room on issues of access to web and media data.

To follow the progress of the IDAN project and obtain information on the opening of access points and data availability, visit https://idan.network/

The prefiguration report of the “Health Data Hub” was transmitted to the Minister of Solidarities and Health, Agnès BUZYN, and the Secretary of State for Digital, Mounir MAHJOUBI.

To answer these questions, we have designed new functionalities on our website to present the work carried out on the CASD according to the following three axes: – project descriptions, – the data sources used, – and the publications produced.…

At its offices in Palaiseau on 11 September 2018, CASD held a day dedicated to French and German employee /employer data with the participation of INSEE and IAB (Institute for Employment Research at the German Federal Employment Agency). Over 60 participants attended a very detailed presentation of the Annual Declarations of Social Data (DADS).

CASD has organized, in collaboration with INSEE and IAB, a day dedicated to employee / employer data on Tuesday, 11 September 2018.

The 2018 satisfaction survey was conducted at the end of the first quarter with a two-part questionnaire.

A digital identity that captures and verifies researcher-specific information that data managers need before sharing their data with the researcher.

It was an opportunity to discuss current initiatives in France and abroad….

On 29 June 2018, the 10th Day of the Journal of Medical Management and Economics will take place.

INSEE and CASD continue to prioritize their commitment to allow research to fully benefit from the potential offered by the new national and European legal frameworks.

The journal Economie et Statistique is launching a call for papers for a special issue entitled “Youth and Transitions to Adulthood”.

Access from the United States and Canada to INSEE Data Coming Soon

The request to be able to work on French data from the United States and Canada has continually increased. INSEE, in its desire to support research, has just decided to allow access to its data via CASD SD-Boxes provided to North America.

More than 15,200 participants were able to discover the 250 exhibitors’ stands and potentially attend more than 50 conferences…

Mr Schoettl, Honorary State Councillor, has been appointed to succeed Mr Gaeremynck as Chairman of the Statistical Secret Committee.

Signing of the agreement with IAB to allow access to German IAB data from CASD premises.

On February 14, the Secretary of State in charge of digital technology, Mr. MAHJOUBI, came to the Saclay plateau.

CASD coordinates the establishment of collaboration between French, British, German and Dutch secure access centres.

The ANR published its evaluation report of the Equipex at mid-term.

The CASD has taken into account the security vulnerabilities revealed at the beginning of 2018, Spectrum and Meltdown, which affect microprocessors.

Since March 2016, CASD has made PMSI data (Program of Medicalization of Information Systems) available to ATIH authorized users (Technical Agency for Information on the Hospitalization of Health Data) in the best work and safety conditions possible.

The newsletter of the Statistics and Public Issues group

The report The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking, commissioned by the US Congress, has been released. The goal consists in helping increase the transparency and quality of public policy making by better mobilizing existing data, especially administrative data, while taking into…

With the call for projects from the Single Inter-Ministerial Fund, CASD can provide a turnkey Big Data and Data science platform for the processing of sensitive data.

Since July 2017, the CASD has been housed in the new GENES premises.

The CASD is pleased to present you his new website devoted to datascience and scientific researches.

CASD has grown significantly since the last service evaluation survey in 2014. In an effort to improve the quality of its services and to better meet the expectations of its growing number of users, anonymous evaluation surveys were conducted. Overall,…