Statistical Agency

The French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) has developed a metadata-driven survey data collection process including a questionnaire generator code-named Eno ). This tool operates on a formal description of a questionnaire in DDI and executes a completely automated chain of transformations to produce the actual collection instrument(s) (web and paper forms, interviewer questionnaire) and their documentation.

CIMES (Centralising and Integrating Metadata from European Statistics) provides a large and comprehensive overview of official micro data disseminated for research purposes by the national statistical institutes (NSI) across Europe. It is a database describing these data and the procedures for requesting access to them with information about the different types of files available (Public Use Files, Scientific Use Files, Secure Use Files) available, conditions of access and links to the providers. It does not give a direct access to the data, it contains only metadata.