From BPE 2021, the SIRUS source replaces the SIRENE source.

Equipment previously issued from SIRENE are now extracted from SIRUS, with the same identifier, the Siret number.

INSEE is still the producer of the data from this source.

SIRUS is a statistical register, unlike SIRENE which responds to an administrative management logic by being subject to legal obligations. With SIRUS, units that have no real economic activity, referred to as "statistical ceased" units, are thus excluded from the BPE. Following this change of source, there is a significant drop in the workforce of BPE 2021 compared to 2020.

More information on the SIRUS source: https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/source/serie/s1024

BPE is supplied by :

6 major directories:

• ADELI: automation of paramedical lists, Department of solidarity and health

• FINESS: national file of health and social establishments, Department of Solidarity and Health

• RPPS: shared repertory of health professionals, Department of Solidarity and Health

• SIRUS: registration system in the directory of statistical units, Insee

• RAMSESE: academic and ministerial repertory on the establishments of the education system, Department for Education, Youth and Sports

• RES: inventory of sports equipment, Department for Education, Youth and Sports

14 administrative files:

• Gendarmerie, provided by the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), Ministry of the Interior

• Hotel, Insee

• Camping, Insee

• Agricultural education, provided by the Directorate General for Education and Research (DGER), Ministry of Agriculture and Food

• Justice, provided by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice

• La Poste

• Pôle Emploi

• Airports, provided by the Data and Statistical Studies Service (SDES), Ministry of Ecological Transition

• Train stations, provided by the Data and Statistical Studies Service (SDES), Ministry of Ecological Transition

• Culture, provided by the Department of Studies, Forecasting and Statistics (DEPS), Ministry of Culture

• Gas stations, data.gouv.fr

• National Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf), data.caf.fr

• National Agency for territorial cohesion (ANCT)

• General Directorate of Local Authorities (DGCL), Ministry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities

Annual

Request, within the framework of agreements, data from producers and reception of data in files of various formats or download if open data. 

Form January to June, each year.

Data checks are carried out throughout the production process : comparisons with data from the previous year, quality control of geolocation, carrying out a field quality survey, checks carried out in the office, etc.

Geography 

The Permanent database of facilities is available throughout France, including the overseas departments. The base's geographic reference is the Official Geographic Code (COG) of the municipalities on January, 1st of the reference year.

The BPE is located in IRIS 2021.

In the borough municipalities (Paris, Lyon and Marseille), the district has been chosen as the municipal level for locating equipment.

Equipment georeferencing and geolocation

The georeferencing operations of the equipment contained in the BPE relate to all the municipalities of France (except Mayotte) and make it possible to provide the membership of the equipment with the zoning in iris and since the BPE 2021 with the zonings of the policy of the city.

Since the 2013 BPE, equipment geolocation works have been carried out.

Geolocation consists in assigning geographic coordinates (x, y) to an address which is then materialized by a point. Geolocation makes it possible to get rid of preexisting zoning (municipalities or Iris). Thus, it allows finer spatial or territorial studies, with data independent of predefined zoning.

The projection systems used by INSEE for the allocation of coordinates (x, y) are Lambert-93 (RGF93) for mainland France and UTM (Universal tranverse Mercator) for overseas departments (UTM40sud for Réunion, UTM20nord for Martinique and Guadeloupe, and UTM22nord for Guyana). Whatever system is used, these are not GPS coordinates.

→ For more detailed information on projection systems, see the IGN website.

The geolocation carried out by INSEE is based on a frame of reference built on the information contained : 

• in the address repertory (Repertory of localized buildings - RIL) used for the population census, mainly for municipalities of 10,000 inhabitants or more ;

• in tax files (repositories of "cadastral" addresses) for municipalities with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants. 

Georeferencing and geolocation operations are performed in two stages:

• automatic processing of all BPE equipment.

• manual processing carried out on a selection of equipment, the quality of the coordinates (x,y) of which is qualified as "poor" for more than 85% of the equipment that composes it, at the national level. A second selection is made on the types of equipment for which the share of poorly geolocated equipment can be improved at the departmental level.

Some data producers supplying the BPE carry out the geolocation of the data they provide. Their geolocation is judged, a priori, to be of good quality, and the coordinates (x,y) of the equipment concerned are injected directly into the BPE without reprocessing by INSEE other than, where applicable, conversion into the projection systems used for BPE.

Thus, the coordinates (x, y) made available for each piece of equipment are accompanied by a quality indicator which can take the following forms: 

• good : the deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is less than 100 m; 

• acceptable : the maximum deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is between 100 m and 500 m ; 

• bad : the maximum deviation of the coordinates (x, y) provided with the reality of the ground is greater than 500 m and random imputations could be made ; 

• not geolocated : the coordinates (x, y) are not available because the geolocation works were not successful for the equipment. Equipments of Mayotte are concerned ;

Regarding the quality thresholds, INSEE does not guarantee total compliance with these : deviations from reality can be greater in a certain number of cases, and conversely, prove to be of better quality than the documentation does not indicate it. 

Coordinate quality (x,y)

For the 2021 BPE categories, the distribution of equipment according to the quality of the coordinates (x, y) provided is established as follows:

• good quality: 88.5 %

• acceptable quality: 4.3 %

• poor quality: 6.9 %

• non-geolocated equipment: 0.3 %

The coordinates (x,y) made available by the suppliers

The relevant sources for BPE 2021 are:

• the directory of sports equipment

• train stations

• agricultural education

• gas stations

• the airports

• the post office

• Ramsese

• Finess

• libraries (source Culture)