“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. Other results on the feeling of loneliness among young people during confinement, also to be found on the Constances website (link), are the large French cohort in the general reference population for which the CASD provides secure bubbles for data management and analysis processing.
[Learn more]The recording of the 23 June 2026 CASD DATA TECH webinar on DuckDB is now available online, covering its vectorized architecture, user-friendly SQL syntax, RAM/disk optimization, window functions, complementarity with R, and extension ecosystem.
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.
As part of verifying compliance with its ISO-based security policy, CASD will conduct a campaign of on-site visits to SD-Box hosting locations to check, in line with HEBFI contracts, the boxes’ placement, display positioning, and physical integrity.
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.
A new pilot agreement between CASD and Germany’s FDZ/IAB now allows French and German data to be combined within the same secure research environment, accessible via SD-Box, demonstrating the feasibility of jointly and securely exploiting granular international data in compliance with GDPR.
