Insee survey data response websitesThe « entreprises.insee.fr » portal

Insee at businesses’ service

A quality approach « The Public Statistical Services And Businesses »

5 commitments

Proximity Reliability Confidentiality

Response burden control Information feedback

Returning information to

responding businesses

Businesses may choose to answer surveys via webforms

Online access to the information available

on Insee and CNIS websites

Latest news on the portal and on

other statistical websites

On line access to a vast range of first results of national and regional

surveys

Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Selection of a survey

Selection of a survey :Business opinion on the economic

trends and expectations in the wholesale trade

Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Selection of the item in the classification, of the variable

Selection of the item in the classification

Then selection of the variable

Returning information – Surveys on the economic tendency Survey results

Online definition of statistical concepts

Additional links to international statistical sites on similar topics(Eurostat, Center for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys...)

Presentation of each survey :-CNIS description note-FAQ-the paper form (pdf format)

Access to the results of the survey :-available online-References to publications-links to databases

Access to Webforms (surveys on

economic trends, survey on production prices in industry and

services)

The main application features

One application for several surveys

Data collection and personnalized survey results feedback within the same application

Webforms to be completed online

A secured channel (SSL) to ensure encryption of server-client exchanges

Interaction between the application and the back-office in store and forward mode

Architecture

J2EE model i.e. use of Java technologies for the web applications (thin client)

Graphic design: Insee websites standard graphic design

Use of a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework to separate presentation and core business model functionnality (CGEY’s SAMC )

End user

Target-browsers: IE 5 and aboveNetscape 4.75 and above

Security

SSL with server certificates

- High level encryption = 128 bits- « Certplus » certificates

All application servers in the DMZ zone (no connection with Insee internal network)

User authentication trough login and password

Data

LDAP directory: data linked to the survey respondent

(username, password, name, mail address, e-mail address, telephone number…)

Oracle database for other data (some are stored as XML)

Software

OS Windows NT4

Apache (open source) Web server (with server certificates)

Tomcat (open source) application server

iPlanet LDAP Directory server

Oracle DBMS

Languages

HTML

JAVA (on the server)

On the client’s side: JAVASCRIPT for data type consistency checks

JSP (Java Server Page)

XML (webforms and exchanges with the back-office)XSL (translations into HTML made on the server)

Development environment and tools

Jbuilder

Rational Rose for UML modelling

Dreamweaver

R éseau In te rne

SecureDMZ

Internet

O utils de S écurité

A pacheT om ca t

O rac le

LD A P

B atchsS erv eu r F T P

O rac leA pacheT om ca t

SQ LNet

LDAP

HTTP/HTTPS

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