Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) · CPI and HICP monthly, published mid-month for the prior month (DATE_JO carries the Journal Officiel publication date on CPI observations); ILO unemployment quarterly, ~45 days after quarter end; quarterly national accounts with routine revisions (the base-2020 rebasing rewrote history); business climate monthly. The CPI/HICP families were rebased to 2025=100 in early 2026, stopping the base-2015 series.
Any data item in this source's 229 indexed datasets can be requested by its source-native series id (GET /api/starwell/v1/sources/insee-bdm/series/<id>); the first request fetches it live from the official source, serves it with provenance, and keeps it. Search the index or list datasets with GET /api/starwell/v1/sources/insee-bdm/datasets?q=.
License: open-government · official terms. Attribution text and per-series license flags ride in every API envelope.
Quickstart
Latest observations, with provenance and citation on every value:
curl "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/sources/insee-bdm/series/011814630/observations?latest=12"
A computed, cited answer from this source:
curl -X POST "https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/v1/answer" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer dlk_live_YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"question": "What is the latest Consumer Price Index - Base 2025 - All households - France -?", "source": "insee-bdm"}'
Data reads need no key; answers do. Keys are free at /account; a keyless sample lives at GET /api/starwell/v1/answer/demo.
As MCP tools in Claude, Cursor, or any agent framework:
claude mcp add --transport http starwell https://starwell.dev/api/starwell/mcp
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