ESA : Annual sectoral survey - 2018
Data description
The themes addressed in the survey are as follows:
-The business's principal activity;
-The events occurring during the accounting year (merger-absorption, full transfert of assets, partial transfer of assets, split off);
-The details of the restructuring (increases and decreases in fixed assets);
-Employment (non-employeed staff, temporary staff, staff leased to other companies, etc.);
-Breakdown of turnover by product or detailed activity;
-Professional expenses (non-stored purchases, incorporated sub-contracting, etc.);
Sectoral characteristics such as:
- Breakdown of the turnover of the form of sales like company retail;
- Analysis of the customer base (breakdown of turnover by type of customer);
- Analysis of the providers retail;
- Other charges and external charges (general sub-contracting, rent and rental charges, maintenance expenses, etc.) for transport companies;
- Long-term assets, a for agri-food companies and agricultural cooperative;
- Work performed on existing or future buildings;
- Type of work performed.
Sector coverage
More precisely, in terms of sectors of activity, the scope of the survey in metropolitan France includes the sectors of forestry and sawmills, agri-food industries, trade, construction, transport and other mainly market services (excluding the financial sector).
There is also a specific questionnaire for the French overseas departments, covering all these sectors, plus industry.
Statistical unit
Enterprise
Statistical population
For the metrolopitan France, the scope of the survey covers the economic sectors of trade, market services excluding financial enterprises, the agri-food industries, building industry, transport, forestry and sawwmills (class 02.20). For the overseas departments, the survey covers in addition the extractive, manufacturing and energy industry. The survey also allows to collect accounting information for the profiled enterprises.
All sizes of businesses are covered by the scope of the survey.
Reference area
France hors Mayotte
Calendar year
Data compilation
A specific data editing procedure has been implemented. This procedure also ensures the consistency of the survey data with admistrative data.
Sample size
120 000 legal units (principaly) and enterprises
Data collection documents
As the scope of the survey in terms of sector is very wide (see § on sector coverage), there are different models of questionnaires, adapted to the different main sectors covered by the survey.
- Forestry Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Industry survey in the DOM (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Real Estate Promotion Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Business Services Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Personal Services Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Retail Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Wholesale Trade Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Construction Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Agricultural and Food Industries Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Transportation Survey (Questionnaire 2018) (pdf, fr)
- Construction Notice (pdf, fr)
- Notice Forestry and sawmills (pdf, fr)
- Notice Agricultural and food industries (pdf, fr)
- Notice Performing arts (pdf, fr)
- Notice Transports (pdf, fr)
- Explanatory letter Insee-DGFiP (pdf, fr)