INSPIRE Geoportal
Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)
The data set has been established according to the INSPIRE format. It presents in the form of polygons the breakdown of Belgium in almost 20,000 statistical sectors. The statistical sector is the basic territorial unit resulting from the subdivision of the territory of municipalities by STATBEL since 1970 for the dissemination of its statistics at a finer level than the municipal level. A statistical sector cannot extend over two municipalities and any point in the municipal territory is part of one and the same statistical sector. The 1970 and 1981 versions are shown in analogue format while the 2001, 2011, 2018, 2019 etc. versions are available in digital vector format. The files can be linked to the data on population, housing and disposable income on the website of Statbel.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2001-10-01
- Citation identifier
- BE.STATBEL / BE_STATBEL_SH_SU_STATDIS
- Purpose
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The statistical districts have been made to give a detailed picture of socio-economic conditions and housings in the municipalities.
- Credit
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STATBEL
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy, Statistics Belgium
Hadewych De Sadeleer
Custodian FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy, Statistics Belgium
Hadewych De Sadeleer
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Use limitation
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An open data license is available in French an Dutch
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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An open data license is available in French an Dutch
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Boundaries
))
- gml32:beginPosition
- 2001-10-01
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:3035
- Distribution format
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Name Version GML 3.2.1
GeoPackage
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/over-statbel/methodologie/classificaties/statistische-sectoren https://statbel.fgov.be/nl/over-statbel/methodologie/classificaties/statistische-sectoren
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/GeoBePartners-open/SB/d5f503fe-c228-48a6-9f00-927c95bbd450_gml+xml_3035.zip
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/GeoBePartners-open/SB/d5f503fe-c228-48a6-9f00-927c95bbd450_geopackage+sqlite3_3035.zip
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name ATOM
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/GeoBePartners-open/ATOM/d5f503fe-c228-48a6-9f00-927c95bbd450-en.xml
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://data.geo.be/ws/dgstatistics/wms?request=getcapabilities&service=wms
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://statbel.fgov.be/sites/default/files/files/opendata/Statistische%20sectoren/Secteurs%20stat-NL_tcm325-174181.pdf
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://statbel.fgov.be/sites/default/files/files/opendata/Statistische%20sectoren/Hervorming%20statistische%20sectoren%202025.pdf
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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The dataset described fills the technical requirements sustaining the interoperability of data sets and services, as stipulated in the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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The data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)’ is derived from the data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (native version)’.
The statistical sectors were created based on social, economic, urbanistic or morphological characteristics as part of the population and housing census from 1970. They were outlined and represented on analogue topographic 1:10,000 maps.
Since then, they were updated several times:
• the general population and housing census from 1981: to take into account the increase in settlement clusters, new infrastructure works as well as the new administrative borders due to the merger of municipalities carried out since the 1970 census;
• the general population and housing census from 1991: to integrate the new administrative borders from the merger of municipalities in Antwerp;
• the socio-economic survey from 2001: to take into account the exchange of territories among municipalities, the increase in settlement clusters and employment zones as well as the new infrastructure works such as the TGV railway line;
• the population and housing census from 2011: to integrate the new municipal borders from an exchange of territories between two municipalities (Seneffe and Manage in the province of Hainaut) ;
• in 2018: to integrate an exchange of territories between Belgium and the Netherlands and to include the intertidal zone in the territory of the municipalities bordering the North Sea and the new version of the administrative borders published by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation;
• since 2019, the borders of statistical sectors are reviewed annually based on the municipal borders provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation in order to take into account their evolutions and geometric corrections.
The digital versions available are derived from the vectorisation of analogue 1:10,000 maps from 1981 referenced in the CRS EPSG 31370 (Belgian Lambert 72) by means of electronic tables to be digitized. The 2001 version is built from a general version (1:10,000) of the administrative borders provided by the National Geographic Institute (NGI), while the following versions are based on more precise versions provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation.
Metadata
- File identifier
- d5f503fe-c228-48a6-9f00-927c95bbd450 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-10-21T11:42:36
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy, Statistics Belgium
Hadewych De Sadeleer
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 Dutch; Flemish UTF8 German UTF8 English UTF8
