Paperwork
INSEE
Read as a wordOfficialC1Meaning
institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
The body that produces official statistics: population, unemployment, inflation. Every C1 synthesis quotes an INSEE figure.
How it is said
insé
Gender and article
l'INSEE · masculine
Where you meet it
A press article, a chart, a DELF C1 document.
Example
Selon l'INSEE, les prix ont augmenté de 2,1 % sur un an.
According to INSEE, prices rose 2.1% over one year.
In the DELF
reading C1
Watch out
Read « insé », masculine, with elision: l'INSEE. « Selon l'INSEE » is the phrase that introduces a figure in a synthesis.