TIC-TPE : Information and Communication Technologies Survey - very small businesses section - 2016
Data description
Individual data represent one line per legal unit responding to the survey. Most of the variables are qualitative and are used to enumerate companies using a particular ICT technology. Some variables are quantitative and are expressed in number of persons employed, in euros or as a percentage.
The data disseminated in an Insee Resultats are totals (number of enterprises, persons employed, euros) by sector of activity and size of the companies, for most of the survey variables.
Cf file "S.3.1. liste_variables_TIC-TPE16.pdf"
- List of variables ICT-VSE 2016 (pdf, fr)
Sector coverage
The enterprises belong to the following sectors of NACE rev. 2:
- manufacturing (section C)
- electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (section D)
- water supply ; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (section E)
- construction (section F)
- wholesal and retailtrade ; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (section G)
- transportation and storage (section H)
- accommodation and food service activities (section I)
- information and communication (section J)
- real-estate activities (section L)
- professional, scientific and technical activities exc. veterinary activities (divisions 69 to 74)
- administrative and support service activities (section N)
- repair of computers and communication equipment (group 951).
Statistical unit
The interrogation unit is the legal unit (LU), identified by its SIREN number.
Statistical population
The legal units surveyed are French units, which are active, commercial, and operating, with less than 10 persons employed (non-salaried persons are included in the workforce), excluding the public sector (legal category starting with 7).
The enterprises belong to the following sectors of NACE rev. 2:
- manufacturing (section C)
- electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (section D)
- water supply ; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (section E)
- construction (section F)
- wholesale and retail trade ; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (section G)
- transportation and storage (section H)
- accommodation and food service activities (section I)
- information and communication (section J)
- real-estate activities (section L)
- professional, scientific and technical activities exc. veterinary activities (divisions 69 to 74)
- administrative and support service activities (section N)
- repair of computers and communication equipment (group 95).
The ICT-TPE 2012 survey revealed that the survey is not relevant for some units with no economic activity and more often than not with no employees. Thus, the following units are excluded from the area of the survey on the basis of their legal category (LC):
- LUs in the form of non-trading real estate company (CJ='6540').
- LUs in the form of partnerships (SNC -- CJ='5202') and the economic interest groupings (EIG -- CJ='6210' or '6220').
- Associations (CJ='9220') whose turnover at launch is zero or non-existent or whose number of employees is zero or non-existent in the baseline survey.
Other units are also excluded:
- Sole traders.
- The legal units within the scope of the profiled enterprises surveyed in the ICT 2016 survey - they are considered to have already been covered in the survey of enterprises with 10 or more persons employed.
- Units created after 31/12/2015, as well as non-active units at 31/12/2015 - this makes it possible to avoid surveying companies that are too young (that have not yet started operations, or have done so too recently to be able to complete the survey).
Reference area
France
- the turnover and average workforce of the enterprise, as well as the e-commerce data relate to the last financial year (often 2015);
- data on public procurement, IT security (backups, security incidents, hacking the telephone system) and inter-company invoicing refer to the last 12 months;
- the rest of the qualitative data relate to the situation of the enterprise at the time of its response to the survey (September to December 2016).
The scope of the survey has changed significantly compared to the 2012 ICT-VSE, which may impact the changes observed between the two surveys. As for comparisons with ICT surveys on enterprises with 10 or more persons employed, in addition to the differences in area, the user will also have to pay attention to the time difference with the year of the ICT survey selected, depending on the modules of the questionnaire in which the user is interested.
The changes in the stratification of the sample and the correction methods can also affect certain changes.
Data compilation
Cf. << Note méthodologique TIC-TPE 2016 >>.
Cf. files << Valeurs modifiées / Microentreprises >> and << Valeurs modifiées / Ensemble des entreprises >> that summarize the percentages of total modified values, by sector of activity and workforce band.
The first file deals only with "microenterprises", while the second covers all 5,800 exploitable units.
- Changed values / All companies (xls, fr)
- Methodological note ICT-VSE 2016 (pdf, fr)
- Modified values / Microenterprises (xls, fr)
Sample size
11,100 units
Data collection documents
- Questionnaire 2016 of the survey on the use of computers and communication technologies (among companies with less than 10 employees) / ICT-VSEPE (pdf, fr)
- Notice 2016 of the survey on the use of computers and communication technologies (among companies with less than 10 employees) / ICT-VSE (pdf, fr)