Public institutions for inter-municipal cooperation (EPCI) are groupings of municipalities for common development projects. The Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières published this dataset on March 27, 2019, focusing on EPCIs with own taxation, including Urban Communities, Communities of Agglomeration, and Metropolises.
Use Cases
- Mapping the distribution of different types of intercommunal groupings based on their taxation status.
- Analyzing the administrative structure of French local governance based on the described EPCI categories.
- Comparing the prevalence of tax-levying versus non-tax-levying intercommunal unions.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific subset of French public institutions: those with own taxation.
- Distinguishes between five types of tax-levying EPCIs: CU, CA, CC, SAN, and ME.
- Provides a clear conceptual framework for intercommunal cooperation structures.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2019-03-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
- Geography
- Ardennes region, France