The web Portal of official statistics has been established at the request of the French National Council for Statistical Information (Cnis) to enable the public to have better access to all the statistical information produced by official statistics.

Official statistics are produced in France by many agencies. The National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) compiles statistics on population and businesses. Statistical departments of ministries, (SSM), as well as by other public bodies according to their area of expertise, complement and broaden these information with specialized statistics (agriculture, education, industry, tourism…). Each of these services publishes, be it on paper or on-line, statistics it produces.

The work programmes of official statistics are presented annually to the CNIS. The latter, through its committee of the label, delivers to new surveys, if they do meet the criteria notably opportunity and conformity, a label of general interest and statistical quality.

The web portal provides a unified access to these statistics sometimes scattered over several sites. It is fed by the websites of official statistics producers (INSEE, statistical departments of ministries and other qualified bodies). The list and the links to of these websites are available in the national category Territorial websites