Access to granular data

Access to granular data

Opening data to academic researchers

The Banque de France and the Secure Data Access Center (CASD) have signed a partnership agreement giving academic researchers access to 75 Banque de France databases on the CASD. 
These sources, which exclude prudential and personal data, are detailed on the CDAP platform (Confidential Data Access Portal). Access requests can be submitted directly on this portal since 4 April 2022.

The Banque de France is thus offering new services to the economy. It enables the research community to work jointly with Banque de France data and data from other producers available on the CASD (INSEE, DGFiP, etc.), in a highly secure environment that ensure the data confidentiality.”

INEXDA

The motivation of INEXDA

In 2009, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 endorsed the first phase of the Data Gaps Initiative (DGI-1) to promote actions to close data gaps that had come to light in the wake of the global financial crisis that emerged in 2008. During the process of DGI-1, data users increasingly expressed the need for improving data sharing, particularly of granular data, in order to foster the understanding of global developments, for example with regard to risks and imbalances. Consequently, the second phase of this initiative (DGI-2) contains a new recommendation (II.20) promoting the exchange of (granular) data as well as metadata.
To help meet data users’ demand for (granular) data sharing within the legal framework of the individual jurisdictions and to facilitate the implementation of Recommendation II.20 of DGI-2, a group of central banks established the International Network for Exchanging Experience on Statistical Handling of Granular Data (INEXDA).
 

INEXDA’s objectives

INEXDA’s overall aim is to facilitating the international use of granular data of central banks, international organisations, or national statistical institutes for analytical, research and comparative purposes within the limits set by the applicable confidentiality regimes.
INEXDA’s objectives are outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which must be signed by each member and is available on the websites of each member institution.