IRIS Counts for French Metropolitan Areas by Selection Step

IRIS counts track the number of these statistical units across French metropolitan areas after successive selection steps. The dataset is a 9.5 KB XLS file authored by Luka Canton and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare. It was last updated on May 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of IRIS units across French metropolitan areas based on the count data.
• Tracking changes in the number of statistical units through different selection steps mentioned in the description.
• Mapping or modeling administrative unit density in France using the provided area-level counts.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
• Has a specific last update timestamp (2026-05-08 17:39:21), indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 17:39:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

French metropolitan areas