Rate of under-reporting of employment in the Continuous Employment Survey

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Rate of under-reporting of employment in the Continuous Employment Survey
Note: Data measured in 2022 for employees and in 2021 for the self-employed.
Reading: in 2022, among those employed as work-study students in the administrative data, 12.1% are not employed in the ILO definition in the Continuous Employment Survey.
Scope: France excluding Mayotte.
Source: Insee, matching between the Continuous Employment Survey and administrative data (see box).
Assuming constant under-reporting between 2019 and 2023, the combination of strong employment dynamism and strong under-reporting in the EEC leads to these three categories contributing +180,000 jobs to the overseas chinese database divergence between the two sources.

Alternates: under-reporting is more common when the person concerned does not respond directly
In the case of work-study students, under-reporting of employment in the EEC can have several causes. It is thus much more frequent in the case of a "proxy" response, i.e. by a person living in the same home as the person concerned (for example, if a parent responded in place of the young work-study student) (Figure 4). Furthermore, due to the way work-study programs are organized, which combines periods in the company and periods of training, it is likely that if the week of questioning in the EEC falls during a training period,