La longue marche vers un compte satellite de l'économie sociale
After a brief historical background of social economy in France, the paper recalls the origin of the project of a social economy satelleite account. It shows that cooperatives, mutual societies, associations and foundations are invisible in the central framework of national accounts. In a second part, it focus on the Non Profit Institutions according to the UN Handbook and presents the methodology adapted to the French case and its main results. To conclude, new data sources and a complementary methodology on cooperatives and mutuals are required to implement the social economy satellite account