Public institutions for inter-municipal cooperation (EPCI) in France, specifically those with own taxation. The dataset includes Urban Communities, Communities of Agglomeration, Communities of Communes, New Agglomeration Unions, and Metropolises. It was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on March 27, 2019.
Use Cases
- Mapping the administrative landscape based on the described types of intercommunal institutions.
- Analyzing the distribution of different EPCI types (e.g., CU, CA, CC) within a specific French department.
- Comparing governance structures between EPCIs with and without own taxation as outlined in the description.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific administrative level (intercommunal cooperation) within a defined French department (Yvelines, 78).
- Distinguishes between EPCIs with and without own taxation, providing a key structural classification.
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-27 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-27 00:00:00
- Geography
- Yvelines department (78), France