The organization of the French industrial statistics certainly obeys the technical requirements of the knowledge economy, but to a large extent, it is also conditioned by institutional conflicts which it has been the issue, and were three protagonists: INSEE The Ministry of Industry and Employers. His historical study is instructive for several reasons: firstly, it shows how a conflict of this type can be “managed” by the “actors” on the other hand, it sheds light from a particular example reports force within the administration and between the administration and management. Finally, it calls for reflection on the economic information from a knowledge of the conditions of its production.