Evidence-backed facts
- INSEE's free REST service provides BDM time-series data, structural metadata, and release calendars using SDMX 2.1, including simplified retrieval by idbank. informative
- Direct public BDM access does not require a portal account, while subscription modes and separate INSEE APIs can have their own access terms and do not grant publication or statistical-authority rights. informative
- Clients must bind the dataflow or series identifiers, dimensions, date range, detail, format, and response limits; simplified idbank calls accept at most four hundred series. informative
- INSEE series can be revised, adjusted, estimated, re-based, territorially scoped, or definition-dependent and do not prove individual facts, causation, or unchanged current conditions. informative