ABSTRACT
After the French established nominal control over most of Indochina, they organized official agencies to collect statistics. Service de la Statistique Generale was the main body responsible for the collection and aggregation of general statistics. Specific statistical coverage varied widely from region to region, but probably the most reliable statistics were collected for Cochinchine because of direct French rule. Annam, Tonkin, and Cambodge, as French protectorates, had less direct and more erratic statistical coverage. Statistics for Laos are unavailable or are of poor quality. Generally, statistics are available in a disaggregated form for each region and for Indochina as a whole.
