Business Creation - Long Time SeriesCréations d'entreprises - séries longues

Créations d'entreprises - séries longuesBusiness Creation - Long Time Series

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Monthly and quarterly time series published by INSEE, the French national statistics institute, giving the number of registered business creations at departmental, regional and national level. The series allow tracking of business creation trends over time and comparison across French territorial levels, and are useful for economic analysis and monitoring of entrepreneurial activity across France.Séries chronologiques mensuelles et trimestrielles sur le nombre de créations d'entreprises enregistrées, au niveau départemental, régional et national.

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Data schema (9 fields)

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Field	Type	Description
GEOTerritory	string	Geographic area code for the observation (department, region, or national).Geographic area code for the observation (department, region, or national).
SEASONAL_ADJUSTSeasonal adjust	string	Indicates whether the data is seasonally adjusted.Indicates whether the data is seasonally adjusted.
FREQFrequency	string	Frequency of the time series, e.g. monthly or quarterly.Frequency of the time series, e.g. monthly or quarterly.
SIDE_MEASURESide measure	string	Code identifying the specific business creation measure reported.Code identifying the specific business creation measure reported.
TIME_PERIODPeriod	string	Period covered by the observation, e.g. year and month or quarter.Period covered by the observation, e.g. year and month or quarter.
UNIT_MEASUREUnit	string	Unit in which the observed value is expressed.Unit in which the observed value is expressed.
ACTIVITY	string	Code for the economic activity sector of the businesses created.Code for the economic activity sector of the businesses created.
LEGAL_FORMLegal form	string	Legal form or business status category of the created enterprises.Legal form or business status category of the created enterprises.
OBS_VALUE_NIVEAUValue	number	Number of business creations recorded for the given breakdown.Number of business creations recorded for the given breakdown.

Schema captured from melodi 7 days ago.

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1GEO: 2025-DEP-971 · FREQ: Q

{
  "GEO": "2025-DEP-971",
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "ACTIVITY": "BE",
  "LEGAL_FORM": "X_MICRO",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2023-Q2",
  "SIDE_MEASURE": "BURE",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "_Z",
  "SEASONAL_ADJUST": "Y",
  "OBS_VALUE_NIVEAU": 53
}

Record 2GEO: 2025-DEP-974 · FREQ: Q

{
  "GEO": "2025-DEP-974",
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "ACTIVITY": "FZ",
  "LEGAL_FORM": "X_MICRO",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2023-Q2",
  "SIDE_MEASURE": "BURE",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "_Z",
  "SEASONAL_ADJUST": "Y",
  "OBS_VALUE_NIVEAU": 147
}

Record 3GEO: 2025-DEP-971 · FREQ: Q

{
  "GEO": "2025-DEP-971",
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "ACTIVITY": "JTU",
  "LEGAL_FORM": "X_MICRO",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2023-Q1",
  "SIDE_MEASURE": "BURE",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "_Z",
  "SEASONAL_ADJUST": "Y",
  "OBS_VALUE_NIVEAU": 530
}

Record 4GEO: 2025-REG-94 · FREQ: Q

{
  "GEO": "2025-REG-94",
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "ACTIVITY": "BE",
  "LEGAL_FORM": "SOC",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2023-Q3",
  "SIDE_MEASURE": "BURE",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "_Z",
  "SEASONAL_ADJUST": "Y",
  "OBS_VALUE_NIVEAU": 37
}

Record 5GEO: 2025-DEP-971 · FREQ: Q

{
  "GEO": "2025-DEP-971",
  "FREQ": "Q",
  "ACTIVITY": "JTU",
  "LEGAL_FORM": "SOC",
  "TIME_PERIOD": "2023-Q4",
  "SIDE_MEASURE": "BURE",
  "UNIT_MEASURE": "_Z",
  "SEASONAL_ADJUST": "Y",
  "OBS_VALUE_NIVEAU": 400
}

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Base URL: https://api.insee.fr/melodi/data/DS_SIDE_CREA_ENT_SERIES

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curl -s 'https://api.insee.fr/melodi/data/DS_SIDE_CREA_ENT_SERIES?maxResult=20' -H 'Accept: application/json'

First 20 observations (dimensions + measures) as JSON.

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