Accurate demographic knowledge of the equine population is needed to assess and model equine health events. France is one of the few European countries with an operational centralized database (SIRE) recording individual data on all declared equines living in France and on their owners and keepers. Our study aimed to assess SIRE database quality concerning the updating of information by equine owners and keepers with a view to its improvement and use in surveillance and research. Two online surveys were conducted with the participation of 6244 registered keepers and 13,869 owners. Results showed some inconsistencies between SIRE records and survey responses. The inconsistency rate for equines whose castration and death were not registered in the database was 28.7% and 5.9% respectively. Concerning owners, 11% of respondents did not own the reference equine selected considered by the survey, 33% had changed address without updating it in the SIRE. Concerning premises hosting equines, the keeper survey's inconsistency rate was 7.3%, of which 57 respondents had closed and 32 had opened premises without reporting it. Comparatively, the owner survey's inconsistency rate was 40.7% including respondents who owned and hosted an equine without reporting these equine premises, and owners who did not keep any equines on their premises. In conclusion, the SIRE database proved to be a valuable and reliable source for epidemiological research as long as some bias is taken into account. On the contrary, its use in surveillance is currently limited due some shortcomings in updating and/or reporting by owners and keepers.

要评估和建模马匹健康事件，需要有马匹种群的准确人口统计学知识。法国是少数几个拥有可操作的集中式数据库（SIRE）的欧洲国家之一，该数据库记录有关居住在法国的所有申报马匹及其所有者和饲养者的个人数据。我们的研究旨在评估SIRE数据库的质量，该质量与马所有者和饲养员更新信息有关，以期改进其在监视和研究中的使用。进行了两次在线调查，有6244名注册管理者和13,869名所有者参加。结果显示SIRE记录和调查答复之间存在一些不一致之处。未在数据库中记录cast割和死亡的马的不一致率分别为28.7％和5.9％。关于业主，11％的受访者没有拥有此次调查所选择的参考马，33％的受访者未在SIRE中进行更新就更改了地址。关于托管马的场所，店主调查的不一致性率为7.3％，其中57名被调查者关闭了，32名被揭开了场所而未报告。相比之下，所有者调查的不一致性率为40.7％，其中包括拥有和托管马却未报告这些马房地的受访者以及未在其马房中保留任何马的所有者。总之，只要考虑到一些偏见，SIRE数据库被证明是流行病学研究的有价值和可靠的来源。相反，由于所有者和饲养者在更新和/或报告方面存在一些缺陷，目前在监视中的使用受到限制。