Fichier des personnes décédées

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As Fichier des personnes décédées (German "late register persons") is in France called a central register of in the country since 1970 deceased. It is run by the national statistical office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (Insee). Since October 2019, the death register has been accessible online free of charge and without registration.

Database

The stocks record deaths since and including 1970. For previous years, the data are summarized in one file for each calendar year; There are monthly and trimestrial files for the current year.

Each entry relates to a person and contains the family name, first name, gender, date of birth, the Insee key of the place of birth (or the country of birth for those born abroad), the real name of the place of birth, and for those born abroad, the real name of the country of birth , furthermore for all recorded persons the date of death, the Insee code of the place of death and the number in the death register of the respective municipality. The text fields only contain capital letters without diacritical marks such as accents or umlauts .

Data received late at Insee will be assigned to the files according to the date of receipt, not the date of death. The French registry offices legally have one week to report deaths to the Insee. If the report is sent in paper form by traditional post, the delivery time and the delay due to processing at the statistics office must be added to the entry. Bridge and public holidays or special circumstances that affect the work of the authorities can also cause a delay. A file of the death register published by Insee for a given period therefore usually also contains a significant number of entries for previous reporting periods; conversely, not all deaths that occurred during the reporting period are usually included in the file. For example, the monthly file for March 2020 contains approximately 8700 entries relating to deaths prior to March 1st; however, the file lacks 9500 cases of deaths that occurred in March, which were only recorded in April.

For this reason, the numbers of deaths listed in the monthly files of the death register do not match consolidated death statistics per period, such as the departmental numbers published by the Insee since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in France .

Access

Until 2017, access was only available to certain commercial genealogy services, which had to pay Insee fees of around 7,000 euros per year. Access became free of charge in 2017, but was initially limited to authorized companies that had concluded a license agreement with Insee.

However , the state commission CADA ( Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs ) , which is responsible for questions of freedom of information and access to official data , decided on May 17, 2019 at the request of a genealogical association that the death register had to be made publicly accessible with immediate effect. It concerns a number of documents of the state administration, which in particular did not contain any personal data worthy of protection, since the persons concerned had already died. This is in contrast to other civil status documents such as birth and marriage registers, for which a protection period of 75 years applies in France. For the same reason, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) should not be applied.

Following this decision, Insee made the data freely available for the first time in October 2019. Today, they are primarily available via the French state's open data portal data.gouv.fr or from the Insee website. There is no legal guarantee for the correctness of the data.

The data are available for download as text files on data.gouv.fr and insee.fr , although the file formats are not identical. Both have in common that they are not easy to read, offer no search function and the encrypted data is not resolved. Since the further use of the data is not significantly restricted by law, several genealogy services and other web service operators, such as Geneanet or Filae , offer convenient search and display functions on their web portals. These are sometimes subject to registration and / or costs. But there are also offers that can be accessed free of charge and without registration, such as deces.matchid.io .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Fichier des personnes décédées. In: data.gouv.fr. Retrieved May 12, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Fichiers des décès. Insee , April 17, 2020, accessed on May 12, 2020 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c d Guillaume de Morant: List de tous les décès 2018: trois sources pour les exploiter. In: La revue française de Généalogie. October 22, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2020 (French).