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The names of the municipalities and provinces presented are those which appear in the Register of Local Institutions (REL) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations. In this register, created by Royal Decree 382/1986, of 10 February, following the provisions established in Law 7/1985, of 2 April, regulating the rules of the local government system, all local institutions must be registered, understanding as such the municipalities, provinces, islands, institutions of territorial scope smaller than the municipality and municipal associations.
The modifications registered during the previous year are communicated to the INE by the REL as soon as they are registered in the same.
The National Statistics Institute is the body in charge of assigning the codes corresponding to each municipality, these are made up of five digits: the first two correspond to the code of the province and the remaining three to the code of the municipality within it. Likewise, a sixth control digit is published which, assigned by means of a calculation rule, allows the detection of recording and coding errors.
The three-digit code is assigned correlatively by alphabetical order at provincial level for the municipalities existing on 31-12-1970, which has been maintained until today. Newly created municipalities are assigned a code beginning with 9 correlative to the last existing one within each province, while the codes of municipalities that have disappeared have not been reused, unless an existing municipality is registered after 1970, for which the code that it had on the date of deregistration is recorded.
All the Autonomous Communities, provinces, islands and all the municipalities of the national territory registered in the REL, including the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, are related to their codes.
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All the Autonomous Communities, provinces, islands and all the municipalities of the national territory registered in the REL are related to their codes.
All the Autonomous Communities, provinces, islands and all the municipalities of the national territory registered in the REL, including the Autonomous Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, are related to their codes.
The coding of the municipalities dates from 1970.
The three-digit code was correlatively assigned by alphabetical order at the provincial level for the municipalities existing in 31-12-1970, which has been maintained until now.
The list of municipalities ordered by province and, within this, by municipality code and by islands refers to 1 January of each year
The modifications registered during the year until obtaining the list of the following year are published in a table as they become known through the Register of Local Institutions.
Data referred to the period: Anual A: 2024
The compilation and dissemination of the data are governed by the Statistical Law No. 12/1989 "Public Statistical Function" of May 9, 1989, and Law No. 4/1990 of June 29 on “National Budget of State for the year 1990" amended by Law No. 13/1996 "Fiscal, administrative and social measures" of December 30, 1996, makes compulsory all statistics included in the National Statistics Plan. The National Statistical Plan 2009-2012 was approved by the Royal Decree 1663/2008. It contains the statistics that must be developed in the four year period by the State General Administration's services or any other entity dependent on it. All statistics included in the National Statistics Plan are statistics for state purposes and are obligatory. The National Statistics Plan 2021-2024, approved by Royal Decree 1110/2020, of 15 December, is the Plan currently implemented. This statistical operation has governmental purposes, and it is included in the National Statistics Plan 2021-2024. (Statistics of the State Administration).
In the Registry of Local Institutions (REL) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Administrations, created by Royal Decree 382/1986 of 10 February, following the provisions established in Law 7/1985 of 2 April, regulating the rules of the local government system, all local institutions must be registered, understanding as such the municipalities, provinces, islands, institutions of territorial scope smaller than the municipality and municipal associations.
The INE provides the REL with the code of newly created municipalities for registration in the same.
The Statistical Law No. 12/1989 specifies that the INE cannot publish, or make otherwise available, individual data or statistics that would enable the identification of data for any individual person or entity. Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society
Given the nature of the register, the data is not subject to confidentiality.
The advance release calendar that shows the precise release dates for the coming year is disseminated in the last quarter of each year.
The calendar is disseminated on the INEs Internet website (Publications Calendar)
The data are released simultaneously according to the advance release calendar to all interested parties by issuing the press release. At the same time, the data are posted on the INE's Internet website (www.ine.es/en) almost immediately after the press release is issued. Also some predefined tailor-made requests are sent to registered users. Some users could receive partial information under embargo as it is publicly described in the European Statistics Code of Practice
The List of municipalities on 1 January and the modifications registered the previous year are disseminated annually.
The modifications registered during the year are published as they become known through the Register of Local Institutions.
The results of the statistical operations are normally disseminated by using press releases that can be accessed via both the corresponding menu and the Press Releases Section in the web
The list of municipalities, referring to 1 January of each year, ordered by province and, within this, by name of municipality, and by islands, as well as the modifications registered the previous year and during the current year are disseminated through the INE website.
INEbase is the system the INE uses to store statistical information on the Internet. It contains all the information the INE produces in electronic formats. The primary organisation of the information follows the theme-based classification of the Inventory of Statistical Operations of the State General Administration . The basic unit of INEbase is the statistical operation, defined as the set of activities that lead to obtaining statistical results on a determined sector or subject based on the individually collected data. Also included in the scope of this definition are synthesis preparation.
Access to the List of municipalities, provinces, autonomous communities and cities and their codes on INEBASE in the section Demography and Population-Register. Municipalities' Population - Official Population Figures of Spanish Municipalities: Revision of the Municipal Register. Related links :
Users can obtain, free of charge, the complete file with the list of municipalities with their respective codes by provinces and/or islands as well as those of the provinces, Autonomous Communities and islands.
There is no anonymised data.
Given the nature of the register, it includes all the existing coding up to the administrative level of the municipality.
A description is available at the following link:
Sections 10.6 to 17 of this document are the user-oriented quality report for this operation.
Quality assurance framework for the INE statistics is based on the ESSCoP, the European Statistics Code of Practice made by EUROSTAT. The ESSCoP is made up of 16 principles, gathered in three areas: Institutional Environment, Processes and Products. Each principle is associated with some indicators which make possible to measure it. In order to evaluate quality, EUROSTAT provides different tools: the indicators mentioned above, Self-assessment based on the DESAP model, peer review, user satisfaction surveys and other proceedings for evaluation.
The Register of Local Institutions communicates all the modifications that are registered in it throughout the calendar year. At the end of the year and before updating the complete list of municipalities by provinces with their codes referring to 1 January, it is confirmed with the aforementioned register that all the modifications to be included are effectively all those registered during the year prior to the reference year.
Evaluated with REL at the end of the year.
The use of territorial coding is essential in the different Units of the INE for obtaining statistical results aggregated at all territorial levels.
The use of the list of codes is generalised in the computerised processing of data in which the territorial location is relevant.
Users to highlight are:
-Ministries and other public agencies
-Territorial Administrations (autonomous communities, provincial councils and city councils)
-Universities and research centres
-Companies
-Individuals
-Other INE units
-International organisations: Eurostat...
The INE has carried out general user satisfaction surveys in 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 and it plans to continue doing so every three years. The purpose of these surveys is to find out what users think about the quality of the information of the INE statistics and the extent to which their needs of information are covered. In addition, additional surveys are carried out in order to acknowledge better other fields such as dissemination of the information, quality of some publications...
On the INE website, in its section Methods and Projects / Quality and Code of Practice / INE quality management / User surveys are available surveys conducted to date.(Click next link)
Given the nature of the register, the user is provided with all the existing coding up to the administrative level of the municipality.
All territorial levels are coded: Autonomous Communities, provinces, municipalities, islands and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
TP2=1 month
The List of municipalities and codes by provinces on 1 January of each year is published within one month of the reference date.
Changes which occur throughout the year are published in a table at the time they are communicated by the Registry of Local Institutions, so that information on the changes is available as soon as they occur, although the complete list is published once a year with reference to January 1.
The list of municipalities and codes by provinces at 1 January is published punctually on the day established in the publications calendar.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
The estimation of the budgetary credit necessary to finance these statistics, as foreseen in the 2024 Annual Programme, comes to a total of 78,68 thousand euros.
Since the information comes from an administrative register there are no costs for the respondent.
The INE of Spain has a policy which regulates the basic aspects of statistical data revision, seeking to ensure process transparency and product quality. This policy is laid out in the document approved by the INE board of directors on 13 March of 2015, which is available on the INE website, in the section "Methods and projects/Quality and Code of Practice/INE’s Quality management/INE’s Revision policy" (link).
This general policy sets the criteria that the different type of revisions should follow: routine revision- it is the case of statistics whose production process includes regular revisions-; more extensive revision- when methodological or basic reference source changes take place-; and exceptional revision- for instance, when an error appears in a published statistic-.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
The modifications registered during the year prior to the reference year are communicated to the INE through the REL and may be caused by:
1.a) Alterations to municipalities, registered during the said period, which are covered in sections a), b), and c) of article 3.1 of the Revised Text of the legal provisions in force regarding the local government system, in other words, those that have occurred:
a) By incorporation of one or more municipalities to another or other neighbouring municipalities.
b) By merger of two or more neighbouring municipalities.
c) By segregation of the part of the territory of one or several municipalities to build another independent one.
1.b) Changes in the official names of municipalities.
2-Corrections carried out in the names of some municipalities as a consequence of the filtering carried out by the Register of Local Institutions with the Autonomous Communities.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.
Given the nature of the operation, these concepts are not applicable.