Presentation from the online workshop: Statistical Needs for Research in Social Sciences, 29.03.2021

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Inventory of available French data
and development prospects
the example of the platform economy

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CHALLENGES FACING STATISTICIANS
Some available statistics to measure ICT use and impact
on work conditions, work organisation...
Statistical tools challenged by the emergence of :
– new forms of work (independent, multi-activity...)
– new actors especially online platforms
● Identification (business registers, whom to survey?)
● Classification : no specific code for online platforms in the
NACE-classification

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MEASURING ICT USAGE AND IMPACT
Provides a wide range of information:
- General information about ICT
systems
- Access to and use of the internet
including mobile use of the internet
- e-commerce
- e-business including cloud
computing, software as a service,
Internet of Things, Big data analysis, 3D
printing, Robotics, Artificial
Intelligence, etc.
- ICT specialists, training on ICT and
e-skills
- ICT security
Annual Eurostat Model Questionnaires on ICT (Information and Communication
Technologies) usage and e-commerce in enterprises

4. BEYOND 4_0 WORKSHOP 29 MARCH 2021
MEASURING ICT USAGE AND IMPACT
Surveys conducted by the statistical
service of the Ministry of labour
Use of ICTs can be correlated to:
- the development of autonomy at
work, a feeling of satisfaction or a
relationship of trust between the
company and the employee,
- degraded working conditions and
psychosocial risk factors. increase in
the pace and intensity of work,
reinforcement of control over the
activity which can reduce employee
autonomy, weakening of
interpersonal relations and/or
collaborative work.
Source : Dares, DGAFP, DREES, Insee

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DESCRIBE NEW FORMS OF ACTIVITY
Since its launching in 2009,
creation under the micro-
entrepreneur regime
represents around half of
annual creations in France
(65% in 2020)
3 main contributor sectors
in 2020:
- transport and storage
- Commerce (retail via
internet)
- real estate

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DESCRIBE NEW FORMS OF ACTIVITY
PART OF MICRO-
ENTREPRENEUR USING
ONLINE PLATFORMS:
in 2018, 16% of new micro-
entrepreneurs worked via a
digital contact platform
- 65% in transport and
storage
- 25% in accommodation
and catering
- 18% in information-
communication
- 13% in trade
Source : New Enterprises Information System

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DESCRIBE NEW FORMS OF ACTIVITY
SELF-EMPLOYED WORKERS ECONOMICALLY DEPENDENT ON ANOTHER
ENTITY:
– ad-hoc module of the 2017 Labour Force Survey (european
initiative)
● In 2017, one in five of the 3.1 million self-employed people in
France were economically dependent with a client, an upstream
organisation, or an intermediary (including a digital platform)
– 4% of self-employed people are dependent on an intermediary
(including a digital platform) = 121 000 indep
– higher proportion for those who work in the transport, real estate,
and information and communication sectors.
– The exclusive use of an intermediary to access customers (which
includes digital platforms) is most prevalent in transport (16%), real
estate (16%) and information/communication (9%).

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DESCRIBE NEWS ACTORS/PLATFORM
– Internationally active platform with no branch in France don’t appear in business
Register
Renewed classification rules in the revised NACE (2024):
– Some questions to be adressed to classify platforms :
- Who are the providers?
- Who are the consumers?
- Physical/digital products
- Who owns the product/service?
- Which services do the Platform offer?
●
Ordering
●
Payment
●
Delivery
●
Business service to the providers
●
Customer service to the consumers
- Are the platform’s employees/freelance employees involved in the product/service?
- What is the source of income?

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NEXT STEPS?
A european definition of platform?
Using new data:
– Data from tax administration soon available in France about income
generated on platforms
– Eurostat working group on tourism based on platform data
French legal definition : An online platform operator is any individual or legal person offering, on a
professional basis, whether paid or not, an online public communication service based on:
1° The classification or referencing, by means of computer algorithms, of content, goods or services
offered or put online by third parties;
2° Or the bringing together of several parties with a view to the sale of a good, the provision of a
service or the exchange or sharing of a content, good or service

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BEYOND 4_0 WORKSHOP 29 MARCH 2021
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