Civil servants in 1975 - Up to 1969, INSEE was compelled to make censuses of civil servants in order to know their number and characteristics. The coordinated processing of pay rolls print out of public offices, which have come in general use, allows now avoiding that heavy task. The present article provides the main results obtained by means of the new method regarding 1975 and compares them with those of 1969. Nevertheless, the data dealing with 1975 concerns only civil servants on duty in the Metropolis, to the exclusion of Ministry of Defence and administrative public offices (consequently about 620 000 civil and military officials are not included in the present study). Between 1969 and 1975, the number of persons employed by the Gover...