EFLM : - 2020
Data description
SARP provides information on :
- site characteristics : year
of creation, conflicts covered, type of site, types of visits, month
of opening, etc.
- site attendance : annual
number of admissions, share of free admissions, groups, nationality
of visitors, etc.
Sector coverage
The memorial sites included in SARP belong to Division 91 (Libraries, archives, museums and other cultural activities) and Division 90 (Creative, artistic and entertainment services) of the french nomenclature of activities (NAF rev.2).
Statistical concepts and definitions
Remembrance tourism is : "an approach that prompting the public to explore elements of the heritage that have been highlighted, in order to draw on the civic and cultural enrichment that reference to the past provides". The concepts used in SARP are those of entries or visitors (schoolchildren, by nationality, etc.) and of people (physical numbers) working at the sites (employees, volunteers, etc.).
Statistical unit
A memorial site.
Statistical population
All contemporary memorial sites (conflicts since 1870) in metropolitan France with or without a system for counting their attendance (museums, memorials, interpretation centres, battlefields, necropolises, military squares, war memorials or other memorial structures).
Reference area
France métropolitaine
Full calendar years 2018 and 2019.
Comparability - geographical
The SARP data can be disseminated at regional level. There is no similar European survey.
Comparability - over time and CC2. Length of comparable time series for U
The comparability between the N-2 and N-1 attendance data collected is made during the SARP of year N because the data are collected from the same respondent.
Source data
Data collected via SARP.
Data compilation
The correction of partial non-response on attendance is made by imputation or modelling (on the basis of a temporal autoregressive model so as to take account of the cyclical nature of attendance for certain sites). The other partial non-responses are not corrected.
Sample size
344 sites surveyed in the SARP 2020
Data collection documents